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What is a scintillation?

What is a scintillation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A flash of light; a spark.
  2. (astronomy) The twinkling of a star or other celestial body caused by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
  3. (nuclear physics) The flash of light produced by something (especially a phosphor) when it absorbs ionizing radiation.
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It would require an extremely sensitive scintillation counter to pick up any radiation.
What a whirl, what a swirl, what a syncopating scintillation of networking, flirting and aerobic socializing this week mixes up!
The dragon shattered into the shadows as the scintillation of explosive elemental forces raced out and away from the impact.
The passive device group includes alpha track detectors, charcoal canisters, charcoal liquid scintillation detectors, and electret ion chambers.
Light and radio waves get refracted in a phenomenon known as ionospheric scintillation.
It is continuing the six-stringed scintillation that originated on the band's first effort.

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