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  2. Civil defense Geiger counters - Wikipedia

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    Victoreen Civil Defense V-777-1 shelter radiation detection kit overview. CD Counters came in a variety of different models, each with specific capabilities. Each of these models has an analog meter from 1 to 5, with 1/10 tick marks. Thus, at X10, the meter reads from 1 to 50. CD meters were produced by a number of different firms under contract.

  3. Aware Electronics - Wikipedia

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    Aware Electronics Corp. is a United States of America designer and manufacturer of radiation monitors and Geiger Counters. It is located in Wilmington, Delaware and was incorporated in 1986 [ 1 ] Aware's RM-80 detector with thin mica window pancake detector plugged into the LCD-90 microcontroller data-logger with Class 1 Bluetooth adapter ...

  4. CD V-700 - Wikipedia

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    The CD V-700 (often written as "CDV-700") is a Geiger counter employing a probe equipped with a Geiger–Müller tube, manufactured by several companies under contract to United States federal civil defense agencies in the 1950s and 1960s. While all models adhere to a similar size, shape, coloring and form-factor, there were substantial ...

  5. Geiger counter - Wikipedia

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    A Geiger counter (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ ɡ ər /, GY-gər; [1] also known as a Geiger–Müller counter or G-M counter) is an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation. It is widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry , radiological protection , experimental physics and the nuclear industry .

  6. Talk:Civil defense Geiger counters - Wikipedia

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    Thanks to everyone else in sharing this fascination (of CD Geiger counters and survey meters) with me. Londo ( talk ) 21:16, 19 January 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] The British instruments should be moved to another page as this one was specifically created for "Civil Defense" geiger counters - i.e. the name (proper) of the branch of the American ...

  7. .308 Winchester - Wikipedia

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    The .308 Winchester is a smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, police, military, and personal protection applications globally. It is similar, but not identical, to the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge.

  8. List of AR platform cartridges - Wikipedia

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    375 Stalker : Standard military 7.62x51 cases (also .308), length is trimmed, shoulder is reformed, neck is expanded to .375 375 SOCOM : Proprietary. The case head and rim dimensions exactly match the military 7.62x51 (also .308), however, the case body is slightly wider and has more taper. 400 AR : Wildcat. The parent is the 7.35×51mm Carcano ...

  9. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    This will raise the level of the background count", thus impairing the results of experiments by distorting the performance of the Geiger counter. [ 5 ] [ 3 ] The Gilbert catalog copy included the reassurance that "All radioactive materials included with the Atomic Energy Lab have been certified as completely safe by Oak-Ridge Laboratories ...