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• Scintillation counter — A scintillation counter measures ionizing radiation. The sensor, called a scintillator, consists of a transparent crystal, usually phosphor, plastic (usually containing anthracene), or organic liquid (see liquid scintillation counting) that… …   Wikipedia

• scintillation counter — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier. Also called scintillometer /sin tl om i teuhr/. [1945 50] * * * ▪ instrument… …   Universalium

• Liquid scintillation counting — is a standard laboratory method in the life sciences for measuring radiation from beta emitting nuclides. Scintillating materials are also used in differently constructed counters in many other fields. Samples are dissolved or suspended in a… …   Wikipedia

• Scintillator — Scintillation crystal surrounded by various scintillation detector assemblies …   Wikipedia

• X-ray fluorescence — (XRF) is the emission of characteristic secondary (or fluorescent) X rays from a material that has been excited by bombarding with high energy X rays or gamma rays. The phenomenon is widely used for elemental analysis and chemical analysis,… …   Wikipedia

• Geiger counter — Infobox Laboratory equipment name = Geiger counter caption = A modern geiger counter acronym = other names = Geiger Müller counter uses = Particle detector inventor = Hans Geiger manufacturer = model = related = Geiger Müller tubeA Geiger counter …   Wikipedia

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• Gamma spectroscopy — The gamma ray spectrum of natural uranium, showing about a dozen discrete lines superimposed on a smooth continuum, allows the identification the nuclides 226Ra, 214Pb, and 214Bi of the uranium decay chain. Gamma ray spectroscopy is the… …   Wikipedia

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