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
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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