A novel experiment to investigate the attenuation of alpha particles in air

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1077-1083

  Andrews, D G H ^a  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-PRESSURE; AMERICIUM 241; ENERGY; RADIUM-226; SIMPLE++; STUDENT EXPERIMENTS;

ALPHA PARTICLES;

EID: 54749148286     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/29/5/019     Document Type: Article

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