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The radium isotope (226 Ra) used has a half-life of about 1,600 years, [7] so radium dials remain essentially just as radioactive as when originally painted 50 or 100 years ago, whether or not they remain luminous. Radium dials held near the face have been shown to produce radiation doses in excess of 10 μSv / hour.
Radioluminescence is used as a low level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage. Radioluminescent paint is occasionally used for clock hands and instrument dials, enabling them to be read in the dark. Radioluminescence is also sometimes seen around high-power radiation sources, such as nuclear reactors and radioisotopes.
After a small fraction of a second the atom will re-emit the radiation and return to its F = 3 ground state. From the definition of the second it follows that the radiation in question has a frequency of exactly 9.192 631 77 GHz, corresponding to a wavelength of about 3.26 cm and therefore belonging to the microwave range.
Atomic clocks have the benefit that atoms are universal, which means that the oscillation frequency is also universal. This is different from quartz and mechanical time measurement devices that do not have a universal frequency. A clock's quality can be specified by two parameters: accuracy and stability.
The Radium Dial Company was one of a few now defunct United States companies, along with the United States Radium Corporation, involved in the painting of clocks, watches and other instrument dials using radioluminescent paint containing radium. The resulting dials are now collectively known as radium dials.
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For a trap-based nuclear clock either a single 229 Th 3+ ion is trapped in a Paul trap, known as the single-ion nuclear clock, [1] [2] or a chain of multiple ions is trapped, considered as the multiple-ion nuclear clock. [7] Such clocks are expected to achieve the highest time accuracy, as the ions are to a large extent isolated from their ...
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