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RE: Thinking About A Geiger Counter

Original poster: Skip Malley <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I am familiar with the original thread. I was responding to one coiler's mistaken assumption that a Geiger counter could measure X-rays.

The word RADIATION is a word that, unfortunately, is very much overused and the various meanings are under-explained.

RADIATION simply means ANY ENERGY COMING FROM ANY OBJECT.
A RADIATOR is ANY ITEM THAT EMITS ENERGY.

That energy can be of any type or frequency / wavelength. It is unfortunate that the words X-RAYS and RADIATION are often used interchangeably and one unfortunately used when the other is the intended meaning. My intent in my original reply was to point this out.

I very well know that high voltages striking objects is something that creates X-RAYS. My intended meaning is that Geiger counters count particles, not x-rays or other radiated energy.

Skip

At 01:10 PM 11/6/2005, you wrote: 
Unnhhh... Skip -- the original question was brought about by the very
interesting: "Lab Sparks make X-Rays" thread.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: Thinking About A Geiger Counter
>
>
> Original poster: Skip Malley <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> A Geiger counter measures particles released from Uranium and has
> ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the relatively low frequency energy of
> a Tesla coil which is in the frequency range of an AM radio
> transmitter.  It is like using an ultrasonic microphone listening for
> earthquakes.  Tesla coils emit low frequency radio waves, not
> gamma rays.
>
> Geiger counter measurements are of ABSOLUTELY no value to a coiler,
> unless you live next to a Uranium mine.
>
> Skip
>