Geiger-Müller tubes, previously a curiosity, became simultaneously important and scarce. The secret sauce is in component selection and tuning. Opengeiger uses the BPW34 diode because it is ...

The Geiger counter remains a popular build, and could be a handy tool to have in a time of rising tensions between nuclear powers. [Leonora Tindall] had tinkered with basic units, but wanted a ...

Geiger counters can identify radioactive emissions, typically beta particles and gamma rays, and can be used to quantify the radiation a material releases or the radiation absorbed by a human or ...

When alpha, beta or gamma radiation enters ... but the count of radioactive particles detected by a Geiger Muller counter is a useful approximation at this level, and can give an indication ...