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Geiger tube

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Geiger tube
n.
A metal or glass tube filled with gas that is ionized by passing charged particles, producing within the tube an electric charge indicative of a particular particle.
[After Hans Wilhelm Geiger (1882-1945), German physicist.]
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Geiger tube
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Noun1.Geiger tube - an ionization chamber contained in a tube in a Geiger counter
Geiger-Muller tube
Geiger counter, Geiger-Muller counter - counter tube that detects ionizing radiations
ionization chamber, ionization tube - a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation
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[James] Van Allen and his colleagues at the State University of Iowa calculate that if the satellite's cosmic ray geiger tube had not been jammed by an intense radiation field, it would have registered at least 35,000 counts per second.
Science past: 50 years ago: from Science News letter, May 10, 1958 by Science News
 
 
 
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