On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 11:05 AM, David Honig wrote: > At 10:32 AM 10/24/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: >> On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:14 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Honig wrote: >>> >>>> Enough rads to sterilize? Forget film. >>> >>> What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these >>> flux levels? >> >> >> Nothing. Magnetic oxides and metallic thin films are not affected by >> mere few tens of kilorads, or even by megarads. >> >> Ionizing radiation has no particular first order effect on such films. >> > > Um, Tim, I was talking about silver-halogen photographic 'films'. >
And I was replying to Sampo Syreeni, who asked "What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these flux levels?" I wasn't commenting on photographic film. > > You do raise the question of what happens to 100-atom thick gate > oxides... > but that's not what *I* was writing about. > See above about what I was replying to. --Tim May "Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone. I think our dog is a Democrat, as he is always looking for a handout" --Unknown Usenet Poster
