On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 11:05 AM, David Honig wrote:
At 10:32 AM 10/24/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:14 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Honig wrote:
Enough rads to sterilize? Forget film.
What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these flux levels?
Nothing. Magnetic oxides and metallic thin films are not affected by mere few tens of kilorads, or even by megarads.
Ionizing radiation has no particular first order effect on such films.
Um, Tim, I was talking about silver-halogen photographic 'films'.
And I was replying to Sampo Syreeni, who asked "What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these flux levels?" I wasn't commenting on photographic film.
You do raise the question of what happens to 100-atom thick gate oxides... but that's not what *I* was writing about.
See above about what I was replying to. --Tim May "Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone. I think our dog is a Democrat, as he is always looking for a handout" --Unknown Usenet Poster