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ALL meanings of scintillation counter

scin·til·la·tion count·er
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  • noun scintillation counter a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier. 1
  • noun scintillation counter 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 0
  • noun scintillation counter an instrument for detecting and measuring the scintillations induced by ionizing radiation in a crystal or phosphor 0
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