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PARTICLE DETECTOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chamber in which particles can be made visible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("particle detector" is a kind of...):
chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particle detector"):
bubble chamber (an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles)
cloud chamber; Wilson cloud chamber (apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track)
spark chamber; spark counter (an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles)
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