Geiger

[ US /ˈɡaɪɡɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)
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How To Use Geiger In A Sentence

  • There are various ways of monitoring radiation, the best known being the Geiger counter.
  • The song "Radioactivity," regarding Geiger counters and transmitters, is a paean to all devices of wave motion and amplification.
  • In two high-altitude rocket flights of thin-walled Geiger tubes at geomagnetic latitudes 64° and 74°N, a considerable intensity of soft radiation has been encountered above 50 kilometers altitude.
  • The dial on your dive watch would send a Geiger counter into cardiac arrest.
  • There was a Geiger counter, an automatic spectrograph, two atmosphere suits, a torsion densimeter, a core-cutting drill, a few small hammers and picks, two spare air tanks, boxes of food concentrate, a paint tube, a doorless jimmy-john and two small metal boxes about eight inches cube. The Risk Profession
  • This is one reason why the crackling sound of the geiger counter has become such a potent symbol of the dangers.
  • A sensitive Geiger-Muller counter registers no activity on the surface of a uranium print or on the outside of a bottle of toner.
  • Geiger had developed, in Kiel, the powerful tool of the Walther Bothe - Nobel Lecture
  • Image credit: Frankincense tree from enfleurage.com posted by Marina Geigert The Desert King: Tauer Perfumes Incense Extreme
  • In 1937 after my diploma exam with Hans Geiger as examinator I followed Kopfermann to the University of Kiel where he had just been appointed Professor Ordinarius. Wolfgang Paul - Autobiography
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