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I've a cheap Geiger that can detect alpha, beta, and gamma. Bananas do nothing that my detector can measure.
by Florin_Andrei 9y ago
I've a cheap Geiger that can detect alpha, beta, and gamma. Bananas do nothing that my detector can measure.
- gus_massa 9y agoFrom https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/ * Eating a banana: 0.1 µSv * Background daily dose: 10 µSv The calculation is probably more complicated, but as a back of the envelope estimation I expect that a banana increase the background radiation in a 1%: So it will be difficult to measure with a cheap equipment just counting the number of detections. [If your device can measure the energy of the particles, perhaps you can see some peak?] [If you log all the event for a day, with and without a banana, perhaps the 1% difference is statistically significant.]