particle detector

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   a chamber in which particles can be made visible

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Questions about particle detector

What does particle detector mean?

particle detector means "a chamber in which particles can be made visible".

Is particle detector a common word?

particle detector 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.