Quenching gas for detectors of charged particles
Abstract
Operation of detectors of charged particles such as wire counters and Geiger-Muller tubes is improved by filling the counters with a quenching-gas mixture of argon, isobutane and methylchloroform. (Official Gazette)
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4339272
- Patent Number(s):
- 3787746
- Assignee:
- to United States Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01J - ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-29-026886
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 1973 May 11; Other Information: H01j39/26. Orig. Receipt Date: 30-JUN-74
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- N46110* -Instrumentation-Radiation Detection Instruments- General Detectors & Monitors; *GEIGER-MUELLER COUNTERS; 2-METHYLPROPANE CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; ARGON; CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; GASES; MIXTURES; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; QUENCHING
Citation Formats
Atac, M. Quenching gas for detectors of charged particles. United States: N. p., 1974.
Web.
Atac, M. Quenching gas for detectors of charged particles. United States.
Atac, M. Tue .
"Quenching gas for detectors of charged particles". United States.
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