scintillation

How To Use scintillation In A Sentence

• It's called a scintillation counter, and it's been specially adapted for this search. CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006
• Of the passive devices, the charcoal canisters and charcoal liquid scintillation detectors are typically used for short-term tests.
• I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.] Old Calabria
• The technical term is "scintillation," connoting minimal signification, the minutest re-marking that makes a wink of a photon. 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth
• Development of various types of nonphotographic scintillation chambers Georges Charpak - Curriculum Vitae
• The dragon shattered into the shadows as the scintillation of explosive elemental forces raced out and away from the impact.
• It is continuing the six-stringed scintillation that originated on the band's first effort.
• The sensing element of a scintillation counter is a fluor, a substance capable of converting radiation energy to light energy.
• CBF imaging is based on the scintillation detection of the rates in which inert freely diffusible radioisotopes e.g., krypton 85, 133xenon are cleared from the brain following intracarotid injection or inhalation. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• Quickening his stride, he outsprinted Able Prince, with Scintillation nearly two lengths behind in third.