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Definition of Scintillations
1. scintillation [n] - See also: scintillation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scintillations
Literary usage of Scintillations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Measurements in Radio-activity by Walter Makower, Hans Geiger (1912)
"Measurements can be made most accurately with about 40 scintillations per minute.
... Determination of the Range of a Particles by scintillations. ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1903)
"The scintillations are somewhat better seen with a pocket lens magnifying about
20 diameters. They are less visible on the barium ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Sometimes they seem to be small bright scintillations of various forms.
Similar appearances may be observed at the moments of opening or of closing a strong ..."
4. Travels in the Interior of Brazil, Principally Through the Northern by George Gardner (1849)
"... animal that causes this phenomenon—Its curious nests—scintillations at Sea
caused by a very minute kind of Shrimp—Arrives in England—Concluding remarks. ..."
5. Radio-activity by Ernest Rutherford (1904)
"The scintillations are produced not only by radium and polonium, ... As far as
observations have yet gone, the production of scintillations appears to be a ..."
6. Atomic Theories by F. H. Loring (1921)
"Since the number of scintillations in the experiments with nitrogen was much too
small to mark directly the boundary of the scintillations, ..."
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