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Scintillation
Scintillation Scin`til*la"tion, n. [L. scintillatio: cf. F. scintillation.] 1. The act of scintillating. 2. A spark or flash emitted in scintillating. These scintillations are . . . the inflammable effluences discharged from the bodies collided. --Sir T. Browne.

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- Look up scintillation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scintillation can refer to: Scintillation (astronomy), atmospheric effects which influence astronomical...
- first device which used a scintillator was built in 1903 by Sir William Crookes and used a ZnS screen. The scintillations produced by the screen were...
- episodes. Animated depictions Flickering animation of a scintillating scotoma, where the scintillations were of a zigzag pattern starting in the center of...
- condensed matter physics, scintillation (/ˈsɪntɪleɪʃən/ SIN-til-ay-shun) is the physical process where a material, called a scintillator, emits ultraviolet or...
- A scintillation counter is an instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation by using the excitation effect of incident radiation on a scintillating...
- ; Phillips, R. L.; Hopen, C. (2000). "Aperture averaging of optical scintillations". Waves in Random Media. 10 (1). Taylor & Francis: 53–70. doi:10...
- Scintillation is a fluctuation in the amplitude of a target on a radar display. It is closely related to target glint, or wander, an apparent displacement...
- multiple names: authors list (link) Jokipii, J.R. (1973). "Turbulence and Scintillations in the Interplanetary Plasma". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics...
- common types of grid illusions are the Hermann grid illusion and the scintillating grid illusion. The Hermann grid illusion is an optical illusion reported...
- scintillography technique, the Positron-emission tomography (PET), which uses the scintillations provoked by electron-positron annihilation phenomena. Scintigraphy of...