scintillation
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- noun
- /ˌsɪn.tɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Specialized
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- The scintillation produced a brief but bright flash of light, showing that radiation was detected.
- a scintillation detector
- a scintillation counter
- liquid scintillation
But you can imagine hooking up an HPLC to a detector that allows you to do scintillation counting and some sort of column that will allow you to look for ATP.
- But you can imagine hooking up an HPLC to a detector that allows you to do scintillation counting and some sort of column that will allow you to look for ATP.
- And you put them into two little scintillation vials.
Examples
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For that period in the history of nuclear physics, the liquid scintillation counter apparatus was immense (Figure 3).
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The sensitivity of some types of detectors (scintillation counters, for instance) is mind-blowing.
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And you put them into two little scintillation vials.
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Furthermore, the details of the scintillations provide information on the distance and size of the source.
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This is a low-energy gamma scintillation probe.
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A massive scintillation detector helps to determine the energy of the incoming gamma rays.
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Cells are placed on filter paper, and radiolabeled thymidine content is determined in a liquid scintillation counter.
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The scattered photon travels through the instrument and is absorbed in the lower crystal detector, where its scintillation is recorded by more photomultipliers.
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AGASA, with its 111 scintillation detectors deployed over 100 km², is by far the world's largest air shower array.
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The Graal detector consists of plastic scintillators, wire chambers, and a "crystal ball" made of 480 bismuth germanate scintillation crystals.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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1.7
A sudden, brief burst of bright light, for example from a camera
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6.7
Light appears when something takes in other light, like minerals or jellyfish
Light a material gives out after it takes in light
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
scintillation = scintillate (semi-transparent) = scintillate + ion
The word is formed from 'scintillate' + '-ion' (a flash), but this sense is a specialized, technical usage in radiation detection which may not be obvious to general learners even though the basic idea of a 'flash' is preserved.
Etymology
Scintillation comes from the Latin word scintilla, meaning 'spark', and in science it describes a tiny 'spark' of light inside a detector when a particle or photon hits it. That image of a little spark helps explain why scientists call those brief flashes 'scintillations'.