Geiger tube


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Geiger tube

n.
A metal or glass tube filled with gas and used with a geiger counter.
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But at extreme altitudes, when the satellites were more than 1,000 miles high near the apogees of their orbits, the Geiger tubes sometimes stopped indicating sufficiently strong pulses to be counted, just as if the tubes were being jammed by an intense radiation field."
June 1958
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