scintillation

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In addition, the researchers introduced a new, more reliable way to estimate how scintillation changes with radio frequency.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

With each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

It will be the largest and most sensitive scintillation detector ever built.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 22, 2023

Then they tracked the resulting annihilation radiation at the farthest edges of their experiment, using two photomultiplier tubes, anthracene crystals and a scintillation counter as a gamma-ray detector.

From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2023

To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson