spark chamber

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   an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles

   Synonymsspark counter

   Broaderparticle detector

Questions about spark chamber

What does spark chamber mean?

spark chamber means "an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles".

What is another word for spark chamber?

Close synonyms include spark counter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spark chamber a common word?

spark 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.