[Chemist_Geek]

A six dollar word for twinkle as in "scintilate scintilate minute stellar body."

Back when I was in school, I used a scintillator membrane to convert ion impacts into light flashes so we could count fragmentation products from collision-induced dissociation.

[ASA Vet]

I'm still trying to figure out how a themos bottle knows.

[RadioAstronomer]

Back when I was in school, I used a scintillator membrane to convert ion impacts into light flashes so we could count fragmentation products from collision-induced dissociation.

Scintillators are also used to detect Alpha, Beta, Gama, and Neutrons. :-) Converts them into tiny flashes of light which a photomultiplier tube then can count.