nuclear emulsion

[ noo-klee-er i-muhl-shuhn, nyoo- ]

nounPhysics.
  1. a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.

Origin of nuclear emulsion

1
First recorded in 1945–50

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