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- From: tenney@med.unc.edu (Charles R. Tenney)
- Subject: Re: Welcome!!
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:18:20 GMT
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- In article <Sep10.011411.13570@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) writes:
- >
- >Big Al. Hey, where are all the Noble Gas fans?
- >
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- Noble Gas fans are used in areas where the concentration of a Noble Gas is
- so great that they need fans to move them around. The xenon fans must
- have reinforced blades, as xenon is quite heavy compared to air.
-
- Me, I'm a xenon enthusiast, but I like krypton too. Both can be used in
- gas ionization chambers for x-ray detection. For more info, including
- interaction cross-sections, see my previous post, also a followup.
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- ObCesium: Cesium is good for x-ray detectors too, even though it's
- not a gas, but in a crystal, like cesium iodide.
-
- Do you think this newsgroup might belong in the alt.music.heavy-metal
- heirarchy?
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- Charles R. Tenney tenney@med.unc.edu | What would the UNC school of
- | Medicine want with my opinions?
- "My karma ran over my dogma." | What would I want with theirs?
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