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Science 14 June 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3572, pp. 1221 - 1222
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3572.1221
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Tracks of Charged Particles in High Polymers

R. L. Fleischer 1 and P. B. Price 1

1 General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, New York

Heavily ionizing particles create trails of damage as they move through materials. In both addition and condensation polymers these trails can be selectively dissolved so that the sites and the directions taken by the moving particles are revealed. These materials thus serve as simple detectors of heavily charged particles.


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