Tuesday, January 18, 2005

mmm... radioactive dinner...

"Currently the most common radioactive consumer products are smoke detectors, but in the past, uranium was commonly used to make bright orange glazes for ceramics. We have several plates purchased before such glazes were banned. Measure the radioactivity of a plate and calculate the amount of uranium in the plate. (Please do not drop the plates.)

Estimate the annual gamma dose received from the plate by someone who used the plate every day."

- an excerpt from my next physics lab... oh so amusing.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home