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  2. CD V-700 - Wikipedia

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    The CD V-700 (often written as "CDV-700") is a Geiger counter employing a probe equipped with a Geiger–Müller tube, manufactured by several companies under contract to United States federal civil defense agencies in the 1950s and 1960s. While all models adhere to a similar size, shape, coloring and form-factor, there were substantial ...

  3. Civil defense Geiger counters - Wikipedia

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    The CD V-700 is a Geiger counter employing a probe equipped with a Geiger–Müller tube manufactured by several companies under contract to US federal civil defense agencies in the 1950s and 1960s. This unit is quite sensitive and can be used to measure low levels of gamma radiation and detect beta radiation. In cases of high-radiation fields ...

  4. Geiger counter - Wikipedia

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    A Geiger counter (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ ɡ ər /, GY-gər; [1] also known as a Geiger–Müller counter or G-M counter) is an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation. It is widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry , radiological protection , experimental physics and the nuclear industry .

  5. Aware Electronics - Wikipedia

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    Aware Electronics Corp. is a United States of America designer and manufacturer of radiation monitors and Geiger Counters. It is located in Wilmington, Delaware and was incorporated in 1986 [ 1 ] Aware's RM-80 detector with thin mica window pancake detector plugged into the LCD-90 microcontroller data-logger with Class 1 Bluetooth adapter ...

  6. Counting efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of a Geiger counter using an "end window" tube for low penetration radiation. A loudspeaker is also used for indication. Proportional counters and end-window Geiger-Muller tubes have a very high efficiency for all ionising particles that reach the fill gas.

  7. File:A complete Geiger counter, with the Geiger-Muller tube ...

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    English: This is a complete Geiger counter, on the left side you see the keyboard, in the middle the circuit board and on the right the build-in Geiger-Muller tube 70 019 (on top) and the battery compartment for 2 AA batteries

  8. Walther Müller - Wikipedia

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    Walther Müller (6 September 1905, in Hanover – 4 December 1979, in Walnut Creek, California) was a German physicist, most well known for his improvement of Hans Geiger's counter for ionizing radiation, now known as the Geiger-Müller tube. Walther Müller studied physics, chemistry and philosophy at the University of Kiel.

  9. Geiger counters - Wikipedia

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    From the plural form: This is a redirect from a plural noun to its singular form.. This redirect link is used for convenience; it is often preferable to add the plural directly after the link (for example, [[link]]s).