scintilla

How To Use scintilla In A Sentence

• the substance scintillated sparks and flashes
• It's called a scintillation counter, and it's been specially adapted for this search. CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006
• The new scintillating bolometer has performed excellently, proving its viability as a detector in experiments to look for dark matter, and also as a gamma spectrometer a device that measures this type of radiation to monitor background radiation in these experiments", says García Abancéns. A Prototype Detector for Dark Matter in the Milky Way | Universe Today
• His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call. A History of English Literature
• Propè ad vallis medium sub vna rupium, apparet omni tempore visibiliter integrum ac maximum caput daemonis vsque ad humeros tantùm, cuius speciem præ horrore nullus pleno intuitu humanus audet diu oculus sustinere: nam respicientes contrà aspicit truculentèr, agitans oculos minacitèr, tanquam ex palpebris eiecturus (quæ et scintillant) flammas in altum. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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• Statistics on unemployment levels hardly make for scintillating reading.
• Of the passive devices, the charcoal canisters and charcoal liquid scintillation detectors are typically used for short-term tests.
• In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.
• There was a time when only a section of the women population were addicted to the novelettes churned out by several scintillating weeklies.