The Poet as Scientist: What's the cheapest effective technology for detecting and recognizing Alpha rays?

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[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Sunday, May 22, 2022

What's the cheapest effective technology for detecting and recognizing Alpha rays?

I was wondering what the best inexpensive technology would be for detecting and recognizing alpha rays. I was thinking about looking into the properties of naturally occurring radioactive isototpes that generate alpha rays. Also, does anyone know a reasonably comprehensive list of such radioactive isotopes -- those that release alpha rays, specifically?

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