scintillation counter

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   counter tube in which light flashes when exposed to ionizing radiation

   Broadercounter tube

Questions about scintillation counter

What does scintillation counter mean?

scintillation counter means "counter tube in which light flashes when exposed to ionizing radiation".

Is scintillation counter a common word?

scintillation counter 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.