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Uranium 238 is a beta particle emitter. The person doing the Geiger counter test erroneously thought that tinfoil would block beta emissions from the beads. The readings he got were for beta and possibly a tiny amount of alpha particles - those will be emitted from some of the other isotopes of uranium that exist in tiny amounts along side U-238. Alpha will be blocked by paper and foil. For those of you that wear tinfoil hats, you may be interested to know that a very tiny percentage of beta particles will be stopped by the foil. The atomic collisions that stop them will emit x-rays. So by wearing your tinfoil hat you will be shooting some xrays into your brain. This isn’t bead related but I thought it was an interesting result since it may explain why people who wear tin foil hats can become crazy even if they weren’t crazy to begin with! All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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