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Suppose you had twelve walls of concrete 1 cm thick and each of these walls were separate from one another by one metre one after the other. Suppose further that you have a gamma radiation emitter at one end of this line of walls and a gamma-ray monitor of some sorts at the end. Now, as the combined thickness of the concrete would block most/all of the radiation (6 cm would block half so 12 would presumably block most of it) if united into one 12 cm thick wall, would the separate walls with combined thickness also block all the radiation? Or would the radiation move uninhibited through each with limited loss from the distance. Let's assume the space between each wall has no atmosphere that would greatly absorb the rays.
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