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So I fully understand how alpha and beta can ionise different media. I also get why they can penetrate different media, but, what are the consequences (changes), if at all, to the media if after "absorbtion" or "penetration" a) What happens to a medium after radiation has passed through it...

I need to fit a Poisson distribution to this set of data (no. of counts of radioactive decay) The number of counts in a fixed time interval was recorded 500 times. With the number of counts going from 0 - 9 respectively 39 106 130 100 67 34 15 7 1 1 I understand how to use...