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wire chamber

wire chamber noun: a kind of proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons and can give positional information on their trajectory, by tracking the trails of gaseous ionization.

Noun

wire chamber (plural wire chambers)

  1. A kind of proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons and can give positional information on their trajectory, by tracking the trails of gaseous ionization.

Forms of wire chamber

pluralwire chambers

Questions about wire chamber

What does wire chamber mean?
Wire chamber means a kind of proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons and can give positional information on their trajectory, by tracking the trails of gaseous ionization.
What part of speech is wire chamber?
Wire chamber is a noun.
What is the plural of wire chamber?
The plural of wire chamber is wire chambers.

Words near wire chamber in the dictionary

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  2. wire brushes
  3. wire brushing
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  8. wire cloth
  9. wire connector
  10. wire connectors
  11. wire copies

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