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scintillator

/sin-tl-ey-ter/US // ˈsɪn tlˌeɪ tər //UK // (ˈsɪntɪˌleɪtə) //

闪烁器,闪烁体,闪光体,闪烁石

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Physics.

    • : a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.

Examples

  • Scintillator detectors began to prove their worth in 1956 when a tank of liquid scintillator was used to discover the neutrino — once thought to be entirely undetectable.

  • Liquid scintillator detectors are still common — used in the NOvA neutrino experiment at Fermilab, for example — as are detectors made of solid plastic strips with scintillator mixed in.

  • These tubes could be used to pick up either Cherenkov light or scintillator light.

  • Over three hundred scintillator effects were worked out and this feature of fireless fireworks was widely varied.

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