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Smoke Detectors With Thorium

 

	common_items  ... Thorium oxide coated gas lamp mantles used in ornamental gas lanterns and gas burning camping lamps are ... Most smoke detectors contain about 1 microcurie of Americium 241, an alpha ... [ Click To Open In A New Window ]

	http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/3967/personal /Physics/uses_of_r  ... americium-241 could be found in smoke detectors. He contacted smoke-detector companies and ... flame-is coated with a compound containing thorium-232. When bombarded with neutrons it ... [ Click To Open In A New Window ]

	http://www.davistownmuseum.org/cbm/Rad9cII.htm  ... were executed for both the naturally occurring thorium series and uranium series isotopes and 40 K as ... Smith followed up this anomaly in survey results with a transect survey of ... [ Click To Open In A New Window ]

	C&EN: BOOKS - PITFALLS OF SELF-GUIDED SCIENCE  ...was the -emitting element used in smoke detectors. He had also read that neutrons.....emitted by the 241Am. He crudely extracted thorium from the thorium dioxide in the.....that he could ... [ Click To Open In A New Window ]

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Smoke Detectors With Thorium