American Scientific, LLC · Columbus, Ohio · Exclusive U.S. Distributor of PHYWE Systems
American Scientific, LLC · Columbus, Ohio · Exclusive U.S. Distributor of PHYWE Systems
Record characteristic X-ray lines and determine the Rydberg constant from your own spectra.
The irradiation of iodine, barium (sulfat), silver and tin with soft gamma-radiations gives rise to Ka radiations characteristics of these elements. The X-ray spectra are recorded with a gamma spectrometer consisting of a scintillation counter, a pulse height analyser and a recorder. After calibration of the spectrometer, the Rydberg constant is determined from the energies of the X-ray lines, using Moseley's law.
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Choose a sample to see its Kα line energy, and compare it with the Moseley's law estimate students calculate.
Bring this to your lab →Irradiate each sample so it emits its own characteristic Kα X-rays.
A scintillation counter and pulse height analyzer capture the X-ray lines after calibration.
Plot the square root of line energy against atomic number and extract the Rydberg constant.
Typical student results: the square root of Kα energy rises linearly with atomic number (illustrative).
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