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The stopping power of liquid water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. K. Appleyard
Affiliation:
Department of RadiotherapeuticsCambridge University

Abstract

Experiments are described in which the stopping power of liquid water relative to air has been re-determined for 5 MeV. α-particles, using only a limited portion of the range. The results confirm those of earlier experimenters, who concluded that liquid water did not obey the Bragg law.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

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