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    Electronics Radioctivity: radiation detector with an LED

    Amerecium241(smoke detector) is a alpha (5.5MeV) emitter as is Ra226 (4-10 MeV). Alpha is blocked by air or paper and beta is blocked by Aluminum foil. These also emit gamma (high energy x-rays) which pass through things easily. Similar to cloud chamber, at the University Hospital I worked at we...
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    Electrical Efficient Soldering for LED Chips: Exploring Options and Services Available

    I worked in a PCB shop. Soldering is done to protect physically joined parts/wires. If I ask "what is supporting the LED?" please don't say the wires. Also, what is the solder specified? Is it ROHS or Tin-Lead? Most newer electronics is surface mount, non-lead solder. Higher Power LEDs require...
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    Classical explanation for microwave door shielding

    2450 MegaHertz magnetron frequency of microvave ovens has a wavelenght of 10 centimeters. From microscopy there was a optical limit of detection being half a wavelength, the holes in my microwave door grating are ~1mm.
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    Radioactivity and the Periodic Table

    Funny you didn't mention that Vanadium50 is a Natural (primordial because it would exist at the birth of the Universe) isotope with a half life of 10^17 years which is many times the age of the Universe. Bismuth209 also has a 10^16 year half-life, would have to be created by the first supernova...
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    Principle of Nuclear Fission Direct Energy Conversion

    Any additional positively charged fission decay fragments are repelled by the anode and attracted to the grids negative charge. A mol wt 100 ion accelerated to 1 MeV gives the fragment 100 MeV of energy. So an anode at 1 MV would mean only a fraction of fissions' energy is captured, most of the...
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    Robocalls "Thanks to the financial stimulus, your credit cards...."

    For fun, press one and when the phone answers say "Please hold" then press mute and see how long they wait.
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    Robocalls "Thanks to the financial stimulus, your credit cards...."

    Those calls usually show a spoofed number so blocking doesn't help. Love the phone companies for letting people do that. There was a thing where 567 and some other area codes (and international country codes) are actually charge back "900" calls even though they called you.
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    Moving through Air, Dust, and Solid Objects with Warp Drive

    "Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson what if you went so fast you survived the next big bang.
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    Does the ruby laser (the first invented laser) have nonlinear behavior?

    I used "phosphor" to simplify atomic emission (chrome in ruby), emission from organic dye molecules, emission from charge anhiliation in semiconductors (bandgap laser).
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    Does the ruby laser (the first invented laser) have nonlinear behavior?

    Not sure what you are looking for with "non-linear". Like most lasers, a minimum number of phosphor in the exited state before a laser discharge can occur. Others like He-Ne lasers keep enough molecules in the exited state to discharge continously. Perhaps a threshold for emission is your...
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    Water bending with comb: but where do the electrons go?

    Duh, (unless it is exceedingly pure) water conducts electricity.
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    Water bending with comb: but where do the electrons go?

    Usually rub comb with silk or combing dry hair, so that's where the electrons went. Old rubber combs had a positive charge. The reason the water stream bends is due to charges being induced by the comb on the water stream.
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    Creating a stable 5V DC supply out of 6 V (RMS) AC

    ATmega8A is micro, "ATmega 8A" is just more bad spelling.
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    Creating a stable 5V DC supply out of 6 V (RMS) AC

    "two ATmega 8A μCs." So a 16 Ampere supply? The 1N4007 are 1 Amp max and LM7805 versions are 1 Amp max. Transformer standard voltage 6.3 VAC typically max out at 10 Amps. Or pay for custom transformer. It will weigh a lot and cost $$$. 8 volts is typical computer power supply from 6.3 volt...
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    FDA, EMA approval for patentable drugs only?

    If you spend the money required to do the medical testing required, overpriced like most medically related tasks, often in the millions of dollars in debt then to market the drug to repay development costs become harder when a drug is generic and any low cost company can undercut you and sell...
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