Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metal or glass tube filled with gas that is ionized by passing charged particles, producing within the tube an electric charge indicative of a particular particle.
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- noun an ionization chamber contained in a tube in a Geiger counter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Hans Wilhelm Geiger, (1882–1945), German physicist.]
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