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Definition of Scintillator

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Scintillator

1. A substance that emits visible light when hit by a subatomic particle or x-or gamma ray. See: scintillation counter. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scintillator

Literary usage of Scintillator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Basic Studies in the Field of High-Temperature Engineering: Second by Nihon Genshiryoku Kenkyūjo (2002)
"One is the method composed of a scintillator optical fibre with a scanning driver and the other is self-powered detector with the driver. ..."

2. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial by Louis Christian Mullgardt, Maud Wotring Raymond (1915)
"This is followed by features of the scintillator lights, combinations of these with steam, with smoke bombs and with orange showers and Japanese daylight ..."

3. Small Business Innovation Research: Abstracts of Phase I Awards (1995) by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"The goal of the Phase I project is to discover the most efficient boron-containing inorganic scintillator material and to develop production techniques that ..."

4. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Task Force on Shielding Aspects of by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"The output pulses of this scintillator were used as start signals for the ... A target was set on the beam line l0 cm behind the beam pick-up scintillator. ..."

5. Physics of More Than 11 Years of COSY-11 by Przerwa, Joanna, Grzonka, Dieter, Klaja, Pawel, Moskal, Pawel, Oelert, Walter (2007)
"The same concept was used for a second scintillator hodoscope with 16 smaller strips of 1 cm width positioned directly behind S1 in the region where the ..."

6. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1916)
"The Electric-Steam Color scintillator. The scintillator consisted of combining searchlights in ... 5 — CROSS SECTION OF ELECTRIC COLOR scintillator ..."

7. Humorous Sketches and Addresses by John P. Burt (1879)
"Long live the pontoon, say I, and may you abide long, to dispense the scintillator to your fellow man. Having retired from the' City Council I will not need ..."

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