FAQ - Bubble Fast Neutron Detector

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From what literature I've managed to scrounge, the supercritical liquid is commonly one of the dreaded chlorofluourocarbons (saw one paper where they used R-12), although I've seen references to hydrocarbons as simple as butane being used.
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The idea's been brought up a couple times, and Rob Noulty at Bubble-Tech can point to some literature. I don't think anyone's done acoustic detection yet with the little PND dosimeters.

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I am a student at the community college. I and our classmates are doing
a project about neutron. We don't have a lot of budget, so we can't
buy whatever we want. We need a bubble neutron detector, but we know the
company in Canada has a minimun order of $300. So, could you sell a
bubble neutron detector to us? We really need to finish the project.
Without that, we can't do anything.
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Hummmmm very interesting indeed. I guess now I'll be purchasing different types of polymer gels and doing some testing. I think we can bust the formula and if not exactly even being able to get a rough neutron bubble formula would be worthwhile. If other are interested please include your interest. I don't yet have a neutron source but I can make up gels and sent them to Richard or someone else with a working source for testing. The more folks involved the more test we can run. I'd like to start with a list of possible polymers to try.

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If there is interest I'll start a need thread to keep it off the FAQ.
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A bit more on the polymer gels

http://www.mkozicki.iat.p.lodz.pl/projectspgd.html

and

https://web.archive.org/web/20050225090 ... z/results/


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It may be as simple as silica gel super saturated with heavy water. The neutron strikes producing tritium gas bubbles.

Question: How hard is this "GEL" ? Someone have any idea? Is it really soft or is it hard like silica gel?
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Updated original posting text and replaced missing images 11/27/2019

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Thought I'd give an update on the pricing of the bubble detectors sold by bubbletech. There is a minimum order of two at a price of $158 each. It costs an additional $56 in shipping/handling/border processing. All this comes down to a grand total of $372. Nice. Pretty steep price if you ask me.
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