I was wondering if it was possible to use a simple cotton swab (like those you might buy at the pharmacy) and some ethanol to do a wipe test to check for radioactive contaminants? It's to wipe test an object in my home, would that be sufficient?
Thanks so much for you reply! No, it doesn't seem to so I'm guessing it's just for gamma and beta, would there be an increase in gamma and beta if alpha was present or would that be so small it would hardly push the cpm up?
Hi, I was wondering what how sensitive your avarage geiger counter (GQ gmc-320 plus) would be to alpha particles? If there was only an extremely tiny amount of alpha emmiters would the cpm increase significantly or could it still be hovering around background radiation because of the small amount?