Characteristics of a Geiger-Müller counter tube - Nuclear chemistry

In this video I have presented the practical experiment “Determination of the characteristics of a Geiger-Müller counter tube”.

The content can be found on pages 165-171 of the book “Einführung in die Kernchemie (3rd edition)” written by K. H. Lieser Publisher: VCH 1991 Weinheim

0:00 Preparation
1:05 Practice
2:32 Basics
4:44 Extinguishing gas
5:13 Data
6:46 Bye :)

#geigercounter #radioactivity #experiment

[ghlscitel]

Schön, diese alten ORTEC-Teile mal wieder zu sehen.

[talavs-jekabsriekstins]

Another amazing nuclear science video! Thank you so much!

[pak]

I will hope to know about PIPS detector sensor for alpha particle detection
Thanks

[brfisher]

Don't those freed electrons simply have way too much energy to simply excite orbital electrons around atoms to get them to emit photons?

I could never understand how ionizing radiation, nor the resulting freed electrons can simply excite atoms as it only takes a few electron volts (for example: 13.6 eV for say hydrogen) to completely ionize atoms and the *ionizing* radiation that Geiger-Müller counter detects typically has energies in the range of *THOUSANDS* to even *MILLIONS* of electron volts which as you can tell is *WAY* above the ionizing energy of any known element of the periodic table.