Norwegian Mapping Authority wishes to increase monitoring of scintillations in Norway with a real-time scintillation monitoring network. |
The young physicists beamed alpha particles through gold foil and detected them as flashes of light or scintillations on a screen. |
There were hundreds of scintillations, each caused by a nuclear particle or photon striking the screen. |
Then she exploded into song, notes gusting and oscillating forth in scintillations like a meteor shower. |
The sun had set the evening before in a red mist, in the midst of the phosphorescent scintillations of the ocean. |
Unlike other carbon-dating methods that monitor scintillations produced by radioactive decay, the TAMS method counts the actual number of carbon isotope atoms in a sample. |