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radhoo wrote ...
Stella, this seems like very useful info, how where the graphs processed/drawn?
what was the mechanism in taking these values?
it the first line referring to air composition? N , O , Ar ? How was this data gathered?
Thanks!
I used the gas transmission calculator on the website of The Center for X-Ray Optics and Advanced Light Sources at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. You'll find the gas transmission calculator in the X-Ray Interactions With Matter section of the X-Ray Database.
While you're there, you can get yourself a free pdf copy of their X-Ray Data Booklet from here:
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Nice find, for a moment I had the impression that you did the measurements yourself (including the chemical composition of air), and I was like "Wow - how did she do this "? . Nevertheless a valuable piece of information you posted there.
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radhoo wrote ...
Nice find, for a moment I had the impression that you did the measurements yourself (including the chemical composition of air), and I was like "Wow - how did she do this "? . Nevertheless a valuable piece of information you posted there.
Golly, Radu, you didn't think I'd want to spend all afternoon punching numbers into a keyboard, when I could be sitting out in the garden with a bottle of wine!
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Proud Mary wrote ...
Golly, Radu, you didn't think I'd want to spend all afternoon punching numbers into a keyboard, when I could be sitting out in the garden with a bottle of wine!
Actually after all that exotic equipment I've seen you have and use, this would have been quite probable :) .
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radhoo wrote ...
Proud Mary wrote ...
Golly, Radu, you didn't think I'd want to spend all afternoon punching numbers into a keyboard, when I could be sitting out in the garden with a bottle of wine!
Actually after all that exotic equipment I've seen you have and use, this would have been quite probable :) .
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radhoo wrote ...
Proud Mary wrote ...
Golly, Radu, you didn't think I'd want to spend all afternoon punching numbers into a keyboard, when I could be sitting out in the garden with a bottle of wine!
Actually after all that exotic equipment I've seen you have and use, this would have been quite probable :) .
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2X2A Efficiency As An X-Ray Producer
Efficiency = KV x Z x 10E-6*
where KV is the voltage in kV, and Z is the Atomic Number of the anode material.
The 'target' of the inverted 2X2A is an iron alloy, but with no means at our disposal to determine the other constituent metals, we'll have to proceed as though it were 100% iron, and I don't think we shall be too far wrong.
Thus at 25kV, and an Fe target of Atomic Number 26, Efficiency = 25 x 26 x 10E-6 = 6.5E-3
This will be my final contribution to this thread, as I have other pressing concerns - especially the need to paint my nails, and get drunk in the garden.
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I have one question I was playing with my brand new x ray generator (200V 0,3A for tube HV multiplier SMPS) , and started to get headache. Tube is constructed to create good quality beam, it was shooting all rays out of my house through window, and i was 6m away with at least 20cm of concrete. also i was diagonally across the concrete wall, so it could be easy as 1m of concrete, and Geiger does not show any sign of high radiation. also test was made near open window, so low O3 concentration... SO it's just coincidence or just placebo ?
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