[time-nuts] FEI-5660 Rubidium Oscillator

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sat Mar 29 14:48:19 EDT 2014


On 28/03/14 04:47, Mark Sims wrote:
> no, No, NO granite!  Granite tends to be rather radioactive (particularly avoid the pink stuff).  Any audiofool worth his tin ears can't have no stinkin' alpha/beta/gamma particles mucking with his music!

In that case you don't want a Rubidium clock in there.
Rb-87 has a 48,8 miljard years half-time with beta- emission.

Then again, it's about three times the life of universe, so it's not a 
very strong radioactive source. :)

Cheers,
Magnus


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