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scintillation counter
noun
- a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
scintillation counter
noun
- an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation. It consists of a phosphor with which particles collide producing flashes of light that are detected by a photomultiplier and converted into pulses of electric current that are counted by electronic equipment
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of scintillation counter1
First recorded in 1945鈥50
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Example Sentences
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Vollmann treks through communities in the vicinity of the Fukushima plant, measuring radiation with a dosimeter and a scintillation counter wherever he goes.
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Radioactive counts were determined by a scintillation counter and scintillation reads were normalized to the total protein concentration of each sample.
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"If brains were radium, you couldn't make a flicker on a scintillation counter."
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Look at that鈥攔ecording tape from my scintillation counter.
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