{"id":3676,"date":"2025-09-30T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:03:35","slug":"3676","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3676","title":{"rendered":"Stanford, Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>89.8 \u00b5S\/hr @ 8:09 am<\/p>\n<p>The number should be going down day-by-day, not up.<\/p>\n<p>I attribute the crazy readings one or more of these factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experimental error.\u00a0 Stan doesn&#8217;t much care for the detector being shoved in his face.\u00a0 The readings change drastically depending on which part of his neck you reach.<\/li>\n<li>Calibration, or lack thereof.<\/li>\n<li>Secondary decay byproducts that are more radioactive.\u00a0 I will research that in a bit. (EDIT: Iodine 131 decays into Xenon 131, which is stable (not radioactive).)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I saw an even higher reading, but Stan is a long-haired cat and obscured the screen.\u00a0 The detector doesn&#8217;t keep a high-water mark in it&#8217;s history, just averages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>89.8 \u00b5S\/hr @ 8:09 am The number should be going down day-by-day, not up. I attribute the crazy readings one or more of these factors: Experimental error.\u00a0 Stan doesn&#8217;t much care for the detector being shoved in his face.\u00a0 The readings change drastically depending on which part of his neck you reach. Calibration, or lack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stanford, Day 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[929],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4o3FW-3676","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}