scintillator
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of scintillator
First recorded in 1870–75; scintillate + -or 2
Example Sentences
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Because of limited computing resources, they did not run full neutrino simulations for a one-cubic-meter block of unsegmented scintillator.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
It would tweak JUNO’s liquid scintillator so the detector could watch for another exotic nuclear physics phenomenon called neutrinoless double beta decay.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 22, 2023
It features 507 scintillator detectors, or high-energy particle detectors.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2018
The scintillator was embedded with chemicals that produce pulses of light generated by neutrino interactions.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2016
This is followed by features of the scintillator lights, combinations of these with steam, with smoke bombs and with orange showers and Japanese daylight shells, and by fancy star shells, festoon rockets and candle fountains.
From The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Louis Christian Mullgardt
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