Spurious Tube Counts

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Spurious Tube Counts

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In radiation-counter tubes, counts other than background counts and those caused directly by the radiation to be measured. </dd>
Spurious counts are caused by failure of the quenching process, electrical leakage, and the like. Spurious counts may seriously affect measurement of background counts. </dd>

References

This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use