boron chamber

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   an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons

   Broaderionization chamber

   Part ofboron counter tube

Questions about boron chamber

What does boron chamber mean?

boron chamber means "an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons".

Is boron chamber a common word?

boron chamber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.