PARTICLE DETECTOR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A chamber in which particles can be made visible

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("particle detector" is a kind of...):

chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particle detector"):

bubble chamber (an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles)

cloud chamber; Wilson cloud chamber (apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track)

spark chamber; spark counter (an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles)

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