scintillation counter
noun
: a device for detecting and registering individual scintillations (as in radioactive emission)
Word History
First Known Use
1947, in the meaning defined above
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scintillation counter
noun
: a device for detecting and registering individual scintillations (as in radioactive emission)
called also scintillometer
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