USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

[Tim May]

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
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