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Scintillation - What does it mean?

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scintillation

English

Noun

(wikipedia scintillation) (en noun)
  • A flash of light; a spark
  • (astronomy) The twinkling of a star caused by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere
  • (physics) The flash of light produced by a phosphor when it absorbs ionizing radiation

    • Derived terms

    * liquid scintillation * scintillation camera * scintillation counter * scintillation detector * scintillation spectrometer

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.