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Gamma Radiation Summary
1,176 words, approx. 4 pages
Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, just like visible light or x rays, but with a much higher energy. The gamma ray spectrum is usually defined as light having a frequency between 1018 and 1021 Hertz. Gamma rays are more energetic than...
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Gamma Decay Summary
408 words, approx. 1 pages
Gamma decay is one of the three radioactive decay modes available to atomic nuclei, along with alpha and beta decay. In alpha and beta decay, the atomic number of the nucleus changes, but in gamma decay the atomic number does not change. In gamma...
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Gamma Ray Summary
342 words, approx. 1 pages
By 1900, it had become apparent that nuclear radiation consisted of at least two parts, alpha rays and beta rays. These two types of rays were bent in opposite directions by a magnetic field and had, therefore, to consist of charged particles. The two...
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Gamma Ray Summary
340 words, approx. 1 pages
Gamma rays are a kind of electromagnetic radiation, or light energy. Just as visible light, infrared waves, microwaves, radio waves, ultraviolet rays, and x rays are forms of electromagnetic radiation, so too are gamma rays. Gamma rays are highly...
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Gamma ray Information
2,684 words, approx. 9 pages
Gamma rays (denoted as γ) are a form of electromagnetic radiation or light emission of frequencies produced by sub-atomic particle interactions, such as electron-positron annihilation or radioactive decay. Gamma rays are generally characterized as...
 


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Mechanical Engineering
Catching Gamma Rays
06/01/2006: 472 words, approx. 2 pages
It's the stuff of Tom Clancy thrillers that has recently become a deadly serious matter: Agents intercept a shipment of radioactive material destined for international terrorists. The U.S. government accuses a certain country of providing the material-a claim that the country in question denies....
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The Economist (US)
A symphony in gamma major. (gamma ray bursts)
09/20/1997: 1,261 words, approx. 4 pages
Astronomers are examining data from the Beppo-SAX satellite, launched in 1996 with a gamma ray detector attached, and are trying to determine if gamma ray bursts occur within this galaxy or are more distant events. The opinion now is that they are distant events...
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NASA to launch Gamma-ray telescope
9/20/2007: 483 words, approx. 2 pages
A new NASA space telescope will give scientists a peek at some of the most energetic objects and events in the universe. The new Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope to be launched next spring doesn't see visible light like our eyes, but gamma rays, the...
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AP News
Army post to test for brain injuries
4/25/2007: 386 words, approx. 1 pages
The Army, faced with thousands of cases of brain injury from the Iraq war, will soon begin testing brain scanning equipment in hopes of finding a more accurate way to identify hard-to-diagnose wounds.Fort Carson hopes to get a new scanning camera in two weeks that...
 


 

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