For Your Vacuum Tubes: Isotopic Ionization Sources from U.S. Radium

One or two podcasts ago I mentioned radium in regulator tubes. As I predicted, this provoked a number of comments about how silly it is to even mention such things. Nonetheless, I find it interesting. It seems that real radios really do glow in the dark!

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5 thoughts on “For Your Vacuum Tubes: Isotopic Ionization Sources from U.S. Radium”

  1. Though, it could have simply been a play on words; radium is an insurance policy that the tube will start. However, one might construe that a life insurance policy is suggested when using radium plating. Hi, Hi

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