Sentences with phrase «other radiation detectors»
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The country's newest space lab, Tiangong - 2, for example, hosts a number of scientific payloads, including an advanced atomic clock and a $ 3.4 - million detector called POLAR for the study of γ - ray bursts — blasts of high - energy radiation from collapsing stars and other sources.
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Its ability to ionise air made it easy to detect and led to a surprising discovery: even when no radioactive source was present, detectors revealed the presence of some other radiation that was ionising the air.
The detector's location at Sanford Lab beneath a mile of rock helps to shield it from cosmic rays and other radiation that would interfere with a dark matter signal.
A few other everyday applications using single crystals are semi-conductors, detectors, such as infrared or radiation sensors, and lasers.