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fluorescent screen

British  

noun

  1. a transparent screen coated on one side with a phosphor that fluoresces when exposed to X-rays or cathode rays

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There was a Santa Claus, and a coat rack filled with red Santa costumes next to a fluorescent screen illuminating the set.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2023

Visible on a fluorescent screen were her slanted ribs, her heart behind her breast bone, and shadowy splotches which Dr. Joannides explained were her diseased lungs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Using a microscope, early atomic physicists counted the tiny flashes of light that are made by particles from radium as they hit a fluorescent screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The modulated current, fed into a radio transmitter, furnishes the control in the receiving set for another electron beam which recreates the image on a fluorescent screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

We lost no time in producing X-rays which could penetrate the flesh of the hand, and reach the fluorescent screen on the other side.

From Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Gibson

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