RE: americium 241

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Original poster: "Wall Richard Wayne by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>

It would be a very bad idea to vaporize any Americium 241 in the vicinity of an
open atmosphere spark gap.
 
RWW
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
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> i was wondering if by attaching a chunk of americium 241 to my spark gap, i 
> could aid the ionization process thus yielding a higher break rate? or would 
> that just be defeating the purpose of quenching?
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