Use In Earth Studies

Creator: John Colburn Associates Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: The nuclear radiation detector has drastically changed the nature of man's eternal search for rich resources in the earth's crust. Tells how Geiger-Mueller and scintillation counters are used to measure corpuscular and electromagnetic radiation given off during the decomposition process of naturally occurring radioisotopes. Terms such as alpha, beta, and gamma rays, daughter elements, half-life, and isotope and the carbon-14 method are explained.

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