scintillation

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We’ve collected some of the most delightful frights and spooky scintillations in audio drama and non-fiction podcasting.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2020

Things got more interesting when he realized that he could observe scintillations even when the box was emptied of hydrogen.

From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2013

Only in the last case did the scintillations double, indicating that there was something in the air that was producing hydrogens.

From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2013

The first method of counting atomic particles was by "scintillations."

From Time Magazine Archive

With their apparatus, a refinement of the Marsden-Geiger box of 1911, they found that ordinary air produced especially frequent scintillations resembling those of hydrogen nuclei, or protons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik