In message <4e39c16d.9020...@pacific.net>, Brooke Clarke writes: >Yes. I think using the isotope with the shortest half-life will make >for the most sensitive measurement, nest pas?
Not so fast, or rather: not too fast. You need to be able to detect as high a percentage of all events as possible, so high activity is bad because you run into detector dead-time and double events. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
