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 ]
SCINTILLATION COUNTER
Meaning of SCINTILLATION COUNTER in English
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012