On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: ... > When semiconductor labs use compressed air for cleaning (not much > these days) they use radioactive alpha-emitting Americium in the > nozzle chambers. ...
> Keith Our lab's had polonium in the nozzles. There were long term (bad!) consequences of this. The polonium got out and landed on the chips. Our imagers showed us just where it landed. Americium has the bad habit of "crawling" out of its chamber by being pounded by the alphas. Maybe that is why the polonium came out. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
