What are some radiological characteristics of Teflon?
To start with, please read reference “X-Ray Attenuation and Absorption for Materials of Dosimetric Interest” by J. H. Hubbell and S. M. Seltzer. See: http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents-xray.html According to Hubbell and Selzer Teflon (R) has the following properties: • Material: Polytetrafluoroethylene, (Teflon) • Z/A: 0.47993 • I (eV): 99.1 • Density (g/cm3): 2.250E+00 • Composition (Z : Fraction by weight): • 6: 0.240183 • 9: 0.759818 How these data are used to compute the mass attenuation coefficients (in units of cm2/g) is explained at: http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/XrayMassCoef/chap2.html One needs the total (that is, the sum of the cross sections for the photoelectric absorption, Compton scattering, etc.) cross section as a function of energy. FYI: The NIST has an interactive web program called XCOM that will compute the mass attenuation coefficient for elements, chemical compounds or mixtures. You enter the chemical formula (such as “C2F4” for Teflon (R)), specif
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