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11mass spectrometry — or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. A mass spectrometer uses electrical means to detect the sorted ions, while a mass spectrograph …
12counter — A device that counts, usually scintillations. automated differential leukocyte c. an instrument using digital imaging or cytochemical techniques to differentiate leukocytes. electronic cell c. an automatic blood cell c. in which cells passing… …
13Gamma (satellite) — Infobox Space telescope name = Gamma caption = organization = RKA major contractors = alt names = nssdc id = location = Earth orbit orbit type = height = 375 km period = velocity = accel gravity = launch date = 11 July 1990 launch location =… …
14Electric Line — The term wireline usually refers to a cabling technology used by operators of oil and gas wells to lower equipment or measurement devices into the well for the purposes of well intervention and reservoir evaluation. Braided line can contain an… …
15LFS — can stand for:Organizations: * Libertarian Futurist Society, annually presents the Prometheus award for best libertarian Science Fiction. * Lutheran Family Services of Virginia, a non profit human services organization providing foster care,… …
16OSO 3 — The third Orbiting Solar Observatory, OSO 3, showing its Sail (upper), carrying solar experiments pointed at the Sun, and its rotating Wheel (lower), carrying two sky scanning survey instruments: the UCSD hard X ray experiment, and the MIT gamma… …
17radiation measurement — ▪ technology Introduction technique for detecting the intensity and characteristics of ionizing radiation, such as alpha, beta, and gamma rays or neutrons, for the purpose of measurement. The term ionizing radiation refers to those… …
18Gamma spectroscopy — The gamma ray spectrum of natural uranium, showing about a dozen discrete lines superimposed on a smooth continuum, allows the identification the nuclides 226Ra, 214Pb, and 214Bi of the uranium decay chain. Gamma ray spectroscopy is the… …
19X-ray fluorescence — (XRF) is the emission of characteristic secondary (or fluorescent) X rays from a material that has been excited by bombarding with high energy X rays or gamma rays. The phenomenon is widely used for elemental analysis and chemical analysis,… …
20Neutron detection — is the effective detection of neutrons entering a well positioned detector. There are two key aspects to effective neutron detection: hardware and software. Detection hardware refers to the kind of neutron detector used (the most common today is… …
