100 millicuries of radon which emits 
- particles are contained in a glass capillary tube 5 cm long with internal and external diameters 2 and 6 mm respectively Neglecting and effects and assuming that the inside of the tube is uniformly irradiated by the particles which are stopped at the surface calculate the temperature difference between the walls of a tube when steady thermal conditions have been reached.
Thermal conductivity of glass 
Curie 
disintegration per second
joule 
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The flow of heat in a material placed between the walls of a coaxial cylinder is given by
Number of decays of radon atoms per second
Energy deposited by
Using the values,
we find 
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