On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]>wrote:
One could compare the gamma emission of the metal as a powder with a > corresponding similar mass of the same metal as a solid geometric form (say > a sphere). Then using ordinary rules for absorption (not extraordinary > rules), what should the activity be? I am sure this has been done, and if > there was an extraordinary difference, it would have long since been > researched and reported. > You and Robin provide a good test case. I am less confident than the two of you that people's theoretical frameworks will not have led them to rationalize away a significant discrepancy that they might have noticed in the lab as an instrumental artifact relating to dust in the air or something similar. If someone knows of or comes across a study of this kind, I will be interested to read it. Eric
