scintillator
Definitions
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- noun Any substance that glows under the action of photons or other high-energy particles
Examples
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When attached to the new high-gain photomultiplier tubes and strung into the array of amplifiers, pulse-height analyzers, and scalers that emerged from the Rad Lab and Los Alamos, then and only then did the scintillator and Cerenkov radiation became part of the material culture of postwar physics.
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In the old Kamioka cavity inside a Japanese mountain, where the predecessor of the SuperKamiokande detector was housed, a new detector has been built, a stainless-steel tank containing a spherical balloon holding one kiloton of liquid scintillator.
Note
The word 'scintillator' comes from the Latin 'scintilla', meaning 'a spark'.
