What does CPS stand for?

Counts Per Second

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Samples in periodicals archive:

KIV just released scintillometer (a Geiger counter) counts off the core of seven holes at their Lac Cinquante project in Nunavut, with all holes showing more than 9000 counts per second (cps), these are very high grade readings.

A nuclear powered world

Highly radioactive boulders reaching 60,000 counts per second were discovered in this area.

Canada : Strateco Resources Inc./Matoush: Beginning of a 30,000-Metre ...

[James] Van Allen and his colleagues at the State University of Iowa calculate that if the satellite's cosmic ray geiger tube had not been jammed by an intense radiation field, it would have registered at least 35,000 counts per second.

Science past: 50 years ago: from Science News letter, May 10, 1958

In the Marijane Lake area, scintillometer readings measured on the ground ranged from several hundred counts per second ("cps") to 5,000 cps.

United States : Nuinsco and Temex Report Uranium Exploration Results, ...

In a somewhat quieter announcement, Varian extolled the virtues of its new quadrupole ICP-MS, which is purported to deliver gigahertz sensitivity (1,000 million counts per second per parts per million of analyte).

The themes of Pittcon 2003

Previous History at Beartooth Island: In the 1970's, exploration on the property followed the discovery of 222 radioactive glacial erratics located on Beartooth Island with an average scintillometer reading of 1000 counts per second ("cps") and isolated readings exceeding 15,000 cps (74N04-NE-0001).

Ditem Explorations Inc.: Uranium Joint Venture in Saskatchewan

In other words, one billion counts per second are recorded ay the mass spectrometer per ppm of analyte.

Pittcon product standouts

Exploration History: In the 1970's, exploration on the Beartooth Island property followed the discovery of 222 radioactive glacial erratics located on Beartooth Island with an average scintillometer reading of 1000 counts per second ("cps") and isolated readings exceeding 15,000 cps (74N04-NE-0001).

Announces Uranium Joint Venture in Saskatchewan