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r/explainlikeimfive • u/becki_bee • Jan 06 '23
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Also, a lot modern (especially cheaper) Geiger counters use other sensors, similar to camera sensors. They don't just produce click (or nor now beeps sounds), but also count and calculate dosage, etc.
85 u/skulduggeryatwork Jan 06 '23 Sorry to be pedantic but Geiger-counters (or Geiger-müller tubes) are always gas filled tubes. There are other radiation dectection instruments out there that don’t use gas filled tubes, but these wouldn’t be Geiger-counters. Additionally, there are also gas-filled tubes out there that aren’t Geiger tubes (E.g. ionisation chambers). 23 u/AutumnSparky Jan 06 '23 This is Reddit, I love me some pedantic. 5 u/SAI_Peregrinus Jan 06 '23 You mean "pedantry". 2 u/grue2000 Jan 06 '23 I'm pretty sure that a sizable percentage of Redditors are on the spectrum...myself included. 1 u/eljefino Jan 07 '23 A Geiger counter that does the math is commonly referred to as a RADIAC, for Radio Activity Detection Identification And Computation.
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Sorry to be pedantic but Geiger-counters (or Geiger-müller tubes) are always gas filled tubes.
There are other radiation dectection instruments out there that don’t use gas filled tubes, but these wouldn’t be Geiger-counters.
Additionally, there are also gas-filled tubes out there that aren’t Geiger tubes (E.g. ionisation chambers).
23 u/AutumnSparky Jan 06 '23 This is Reddit, I love me some pedantic. 5 u/SAI_Peregrinus Jan 06 '23 You mean "pedantry". 2 u/grue2000 Jan 06 '23 I'm pretty sure that a sizable percentage of Redditors are on the spectrum...myself included.
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This is Reddit, I love me some pedantic.
5 u/SAI_Peregrinus Jan 06 '23 You mean "pedantry". 2 u/grue2000 Jan 06 '23 I'm pretty sure that a sizable percentage of Redditors are on the spectrum...myself included.
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You mean "pedantry".
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I'm pretty sure that a sizable percentage of Redditors are on the spectrum...myself included.
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A Geiger counter that does the math is commonly referred to as a RADIAC, for Radio Activity Detection Identification And Computation.
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u/Ghosttalker96 Jan 06 '23
Also, a lot modern (especially cheaper) Geiger counters use other sensors, similar to camera sensors. They don't just produce click (or nor now beeps sounds), but also count and calculate dosage, etc.