You can mark you interesting snippets of text that will be available through a unique link in your browser.


Geiger counter

Translation
Geiger counter
noun /ˈɡaɪɡə ˈkaʊntə,ˈɡaɪɡɚ ˈkaʊntɚ/
A device designed to detect radioactivity and measure its intensity.

Figure 27 shows a Geiger counter, used to detect ionizing radiation. The counter consists of a thin central wire, carrying a positive charge, surrounded by a concentric circular conducting cylinder, carrying an equal negative charge.


Wikipedia foundation.

  
Share  

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Geiger counter — noun phys. счетчик Гейгера …   Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  • geiger counter — 1> физ. счетчик Гейгера …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

  • Geiger counter — Infobox Laboratory equipment name = Geiger counter caption = A modern geiger counter acronym = other names = Geiger Müller counter uses = Particle detector inventor = Hans Geiger manufacturer = model = related = Geiger Müller tubeA Geiger counter …   Wikipedia

  • Geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas filled tube in which electric current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.… …   Universalium

  • Geiger counter — noun Etymology: Hans Geiger died 1945 German physicist Date: 1924 an instrument for detecting the presence and intensity of radiations (as cosmic rays or particles from a radioactive substance) by means of their ionizing effect on an enclosed gas …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Geiger counter — ˈɡaɪɡəˈkauntə физ. счетчик Гейгера (физическое) счетчик Гейгера …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

  • Geiger counter — 1) <engin.> счетчик Гейгера Мюллера 2) трубка счетная Гейгера Мюллера …   Англо-русский технический словарь

  • Geiger counter — Физика: гейгер, счётчик Гейгера …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

  • Geiger counter — 1) Abbreviation: G 2) Polymers: G …   Универсальный русско-английский словарь

  • geiger counter — счетчик Гейгера …   Англо русский политехнический словарь

Фильмы

  • Danger Warning., 1983 — The film addressses the issue of war and peace today, in the 80-s of the XX century with use of the unique material of foreign newsreel and documents.