Barium Fluoride boasts high transmission from 200nm to 14um and as such is used for instrumentation windows, lenses and other components. Barium Fluoride's properties make it ideal for scintillation applications where it is utilised in x-ray, 511 keV gamma photon and other high energy particle detection.
Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range.
Holyoke is home to the second-largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the United States, surpassed only by the New York City parade. Held annually since 1952 on the Sunday following St. Patrick's Day, the parade draws hundreds of thousands of people from across New England and the Eastern seaboard of United States.