It's called a scintillation counter, and it's been specially adapted for this search. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006] Reference
Every kind of scintillation flashed from the gem-incrusted dishes. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
The technical term is "scintillation," connoting minimal signification, the minutest re-marking that makes a wink of a photon. From Wordnik.com. ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference
New apparatus such as scintillation counters and photographic emulsions were developed in order to detect individual particles. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
The focus was mainly on the scintillation counter. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
The scintillation counter was found to be reliable. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
I soon learned the secret of all this scintillation. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
A scintillation of butterflies? and on and on I go. From Wordnik.com. [caterpillar in a hurry] Reference
The scintillation method was by far the most important. 19. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
A second scintillation formed into a donkey-headed dragon. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
The de-excitation of these molecules produces scintillation light. From Wordnik.com. [MiniBooNE Neutrino Result - Guest Blog from Heather Ray] Reference
The tube was transparent, its rim visible only as a scintillation. From Wordnik.com. [Split Infinity]
A typical scintillation counting experiment could proceed as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
I need to get a geiger counter and a scintillation counter. previous - next. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
It was further observed that Jupiter itself was almost void of scintillation. From Wordnik.com. [Off on a Comet] Reference
"If brains were radium, you couldn't make a flicker on a scintillation counter.". From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
His exoimages were a blurred scintillation coursing round his constricting vision. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
The comparative absence of scintillation in warm countries was noticed by Humboldt. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
It was at this point that the scintillation counter developed from a clumsy technology to. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
Four or five long hairs, dark but bright, showing now and then a brief scintillation of red. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
Geiger counters were used for counting radioactivity; scintillation counters came much later. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy] Reference
Pacing impatiently before the scintillation counter, waiting for the results of an enzyme assay. From Wordnik.com. [On leaving the bench] Reference
His line of defense was centered on the scintillation method that he and Kirsch had already modified. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
Is it not clear from the smallness of the scintillation on the screen that we have to do with a particle?. From Wordnik.com. [Bohmian Mechanics] Reference
Therese appears briefly in another scene, as a scintillation of light, to cure Piaf's childhood blindness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
The light above struck blind on the glass in one eye, but the other danced with a genial, a mad scintillation. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
The scintillation and glitter of light destroys this touch idea, which is better preserved in quieter lightings. From Wordnik.com. [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference
He released his held breath and willed himself back into Phaze as he stepped back across the faint scintillation. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
He had observed, on the contrary, that nine times in ten the scintillation of stars was an augury of fine weather. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Bates's and Rogers's experiments, Dagmar attempted to undermine their results by altering the scintillation method. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
It was a star which, seen from this depth, had lost all scintillation, and which by my computation should be 46; Ursa minor. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
These neutrino interactions in the MiniBooNE detector leave a distinct mark in the form of Cerenkov and scintillation light. From Wordnik.com. [MiniBooNE Neutrino Result - Guest Blog from Heather Ray] Reference
The presence of moisture in the atmosphere intensifies scintillation, and this is usually regarded as a prognostication of rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
By the edge of the Seine, against a silvery scintillation, a man was busy setting eel-traps and Maigret recognized the innkeeper. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Little Joke]
Zinc sulfide forms the basis of many scintillation detectors, dating from practically the beginning of the science of radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
With Rutherford's research program depending entirely on the scintillation counter, the modification of the technique became urgent. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
The modification of the counting box was not the only innovation that the Viennese experimenters added to the scintillation counter. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
In this room there is a microscope and scintillation screen, and also whatever may be set up of radium appropriate to the experiment. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
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