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The ionising effect of radiation is used in the Geiger-Muller (GM) tube as a means of detecting the radiation. The GM tube is a hollow cylinder filled with a gas at low pressure. The tube has a ...

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Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed detectors ...

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