Testing radioactive Chernobyl blueberries 

Talking about calibration for low and high energies I got my radiacode 102 to be on the nose for americium 241 and on the nose for thalium 208 and bismuth 214 (only on Android so I don't know about the ios app)

Home Depot is still selling ionizing smoke detectors. You will have to pay $6 but you wouldn't have to worry about customs seizing your $3 ionizing chamber from China.

I tried it but failed since I had the beam of americium go through a silver coin straight to the detector but after my current experiment I will try it again the right way

@@The-One-and-Only100 I think this video had a great example how to set it up:n not through but rather more like you'd set up a mirror with light. You don't want beam going through metal, especially if low energy photons are to be detected. (Silver as a heavy metal will absorb too much). With through measurement you'd also contaminate it much with bremsstrahlung that I think is more directional while there is much less back scattering. I used to do xray analysis of minerals as a summer job way back and it was always about surface layer. For powdered samples we used paraffin wax holders to keep spurious emissions out (C & H don't emit detectable spurious signals or at least did not for that measurement device).

Well, you're no entomologist either.

Hey love your videos! I definitely want to build a full scale PMT CsI detector and do some actual XRF spec but was genuinely surprised that the radiacode was capable of picking up XRF at all!

@@PyrotechnicalScience it really is a neat little device ! RC is constantly improving it !

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Also thorium infused tungsten welding rods are fun and cheap.

Am-241 from a smoke detector, who doesn't have that. It really buzzes the ol' 103!

Yeah, that’s why I was very surprised that the radiacode was even able to pick up any signal at all!

Your 102 has the same size crystal as all the Radiacodes 10x10x10mm. The 101 and 102 use a 3x3mm SiPM detector, and the 103 uses a 6x6mm SiPM detector. so long story short the only difference between 102 and 103 is the resolution of the spectra and the 103 has is a little faster at collecting a spectra.

@@franciscasey3789 thanks for the correction also have you tried out xrf with your radiacode (I tried it but the best sample I could detect was silver)

the company sent me them but really any blueberries or even mushrooms in the fallout areas should have enough Cs137 to see! You can find these fallout maps online.

It's a crystal, not a geiger tube

That would be a negative, lol

@PyrotechnicalScience no peanut butter and blueberry (extra cesium) jam sandwiches anytime soon 😋 👌

Nile Red is more focused on chemistry, but this channel is about science in general. For example, this video is more physics focused 😅

The channel called Studio 326 does a lot of radiation detector reviews and recently a video about a 50 buck geiger counter was really good like it could detect higher levels than even really expensive geiger counters

Yeah $350 is steep but it has so many possibilities. I only have a GQ GMC-300S... Simple Geiger tube. It's nothing compared to this fancy sensor.

I bought it two days ago. And yeah with things like this is always a question of will I use it often enough in the long term that it's worth it.

@thesciencefurry it's basically a dollar a day for a year, so if you could save a dollar a day rather than spend it on something else, then you will have enough to buy one and I have the 102 since I bought it a day before the 103 came out but I'm still happy with it and if you want to save some money just buy a 102

​@@The-One-and-Only100Nice rationalization. Maybe I'll set up a Radiacode jar, and put a dollar in every day of the year I feel like I could use a Radiacode...