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ALTHOUGH it is well known that the characteristics of Geiger counters may be very strongly affected by the presence of contaminated gases in the counter filling, very little quantitative work has, apparently, been published on the subject. In an experiment on extensive air showers in cosmic radiation, in which large metal-cased counters were to be used, it was desirable to know the quantities of gaseous contaminants which could be tolerated in the filling. The papers of Spatz1, and of Korff and Present2, include some quantitative data which were not, however, directly applicable in this case. Tests were therefore made of the effects of air and carbon monoxide as contaminants in ordinary glass-cased counters.
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KEEFE, D., NEVIN, T., McCUSKER, C. et al. Gaseous Contamination of Geiger-Müller Counters. Nature 170, 501–502 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170501b0
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