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It's important to have a hobby (lemmy.world)
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[–] SkidFace@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m not even sure it would show up on film either. But for CCD cameras (aka phone cameras and basically all modern cameras), 350 americium buttons buttons from a smoke detector in a wide “stew” that far away would produce nowhere near enough ionizing radiation to do that. On top of it, americium-241 is an alpha emitter, meaning that even if alpha particles reached the lens, the lens itself would block a good amount an alpha. This video gives a demo of a CCD without protection over it with americium and other various emitters :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jFNvYA7731o

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Aren't CCDs going the way of the dinosaur even in phones now? I thought the whole industry had more or less shifted to CMOS sensors now?

Very cool video regardless though

[–] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Way to bust that with reality! Kept the fact checks coming!