BORON CHAMBER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("boron chamber" is a kind of...):

ionization chamber; ionization tube (a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation)

Holonyms ("boron chamber" is a part of...):

boron counter tube (a proportional counter tube for counting neutrons)

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