Which risk increases when an alpha particle decay counter's mica window degrades?

💡 Explanation

Increased background radiation detection results because the degraded mica window offers less shielding, therefore more external (beta and gamma) radiation penetrates, rather than just alpha particles, due to insufficient alpha stopping power remaining.

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