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Describe the nature and variety of instruments used to detect radiation.

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A variety of handheld and laboratoryinstruments is available for detectingand measuring radiation. ... Geiger Counter, with Geiger-Mueller (GM) Tube or Probe—A GM tube is a gas-filled device that, when a high voltage is applied, creates an electrical pulse when radiation interacts with the wall or gas in the tube.
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Radiation is an emission of particles in space. There are different instruments for measurement. Some instruments are:

for solar radiation there are different types of pyranometers

for ionizing radiation there are different radioactivity meters and dosimeters

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