Well, I have bought a couple of old gas lamp mantle spares, the ones that shine *very* bright, and use them to check my geiger counters too. They use thorium to give out that extra bright. New ones are made with another process, not so bright but with no radioactive substances either. As far as I know some chinese vendors still sell the thorium covered ones. I would tend to think that this would be hotter (radiation wise, of course) than low sodium salt. At least that's what I measured at home.
Gaston On Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 7:54:26 PM UTC-3, NeonJohn wrote: > > > > On 03/12/2017 06:16 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote: > > > But how many Bananas and Brazil nuts do you keep around. those are the > > real home based radiation sources... > > > > > http://www.neon-john.com/Nuke/Salt_substitute.jpg > http://www.neon-john.com/Nuke/K40_on_geiger_counter.jpg > http://www.neon-john.com/Nuke/Nuke_Index.htm > > The K-40 in salt substitute is by far the hottest thing in an ordinary > house. > > John > > -- > John DeArmond > Tellico Plains, Occupied TN > http://www.tnduction.com <-- THE source for induction heaters > http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here > http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net > PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/e4468c97-921c-4f12-bb22-e557ff9f1130%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
