[Clondike Clad]

Originally Posted by Carl-NC

As it's drawn, the circuit won't work... the +rail is shorted to ground. But if it did work, it would just be an electric field detector. Which could possibly detect the electric field from ions, but also any other electric field, leaving you with no way of knowing what you are detecting. And if it is due to ions, it tells you nothing about what kind of ions which, again, is rather useless.

Thin-walled chambers are used in radiation detectors, but detecting ions is not the same as detecting radiation. Remember that ions are atoms or molecules, not radiation, and can't pass through solid objects (like the Mineoro "ion chamber" ). A popular method of ion detection involves drift tubes, which must be open to allow ions to enter.

- Carl

I ALSO KNOW THAT THIS WILL NOT WORK AND YES CARL IS RIGHT ON THIS ONE.