Spinthariscope
Spinthariscope
A simulation of what it is like looking into a spinthariscope, a radioactive amusement invented in 1903 by William Crookes. A speck of radium on the end of a needle irradiates a screen, with each flash of light representing the decay of a single atom of radium.
Permanent Citation
Permanent Citation
Theodore Gray
"Spinthariscope"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/Spinthariscope/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: September 28, 2007