Its steady state is a scintillant, cold drizzle of the artist's fascinations: money and celebrity, of course, but also democratic consumerism (Coca-Cola, Campbell's soup), tabloid disaster (fatal car crashes, electric chairs, police attacks on black demonstrators in Birmingham), business as an art (and vice versa), reality as spectacle (and vice versa), and a kaleidoscope of social and sexual personae, all in a spirit that forgets the past and ignores the future.
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This species is replaced at somewhat lower elevations by its relative, the scintillant hummingbird, Selasphorus scintilla.
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She drew the tissue-paper away, and the fairy-like flowers, scintillant and bedewed, nodded at her.
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It is due to the 1.5 µm path length through water, which is very short. So, when the ß-particle is within that particular range of 1.5 µm with the scintillant bead, there is sufficient energy to stimulate the bead to emit light. If the distance between them is greater than 1.5 µm, then the ß-particle is incapable of travelling the required distance to stimulate the bead as it has insufficient energy. The beads in SPA are formed from the incorporation of scintillant into small beads known as fluomicrospheres.
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The "sinfully scintillant planet" in the original final verse is another reference to Venus.Kennedy, J. Gerald. "Poe, 'Ligeia,' and the Problem of Dying Women" collected in New Essays on Poe's Major Tales, edited by Kenneth Silverman. Cambridge University Press, 1993: 116.
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The presence of carbon-14 in the isotopic signature of a sample of carbonaceous material possibly indicates its contamination by biogenic sources or the decay of radioactive material in surrounding geologic strata. In connection with building the Borexino solar neutrino observatory, petroleum feedstock (for synthesizing the primary scintillant) was obtained with low 14C content.
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Members of this genus include: Selasphorus sasin : Allen's hummingbird Selasphorus rufus : Rufous hummingbird Selasphorus scintilla : Scintillant hummingbird Selasphorus ardens : Glow-throated hummingbird Selasphorus flammula :Volcano hummingbird On a geographic scale, the genus Selasphorus can be subdivided into 2 groups of species, one living in North America, and a second in the region of Costa Rica and Panama.
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Butyl PBD or b-PBD is a fluorescent organic compound used in the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.. The fluorescent emission of b-PBD is at λem = 364 nm for excitation at λex = 305 nm (in ethanol solution).. As a scintillant in the LSND, it was used at a concentration of 31 mg/l (87 μmol/l) dissolved in mineral oil.
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In liquid scintillation counting, a small aliquot, filter or swab is added to scintillation fluid and the plate or vial is placed in a scintillation counter to measure the radioactive emissions. Manufacturers have incorporated solid scintillants into multi-well plates to eliminate the need for scintillation fluid and make this into a high-throughput technique. A gamma counter is similar in format to scintillation counting but it detects gamma emissions directly and does not require a scintillant. A Geiger counter is a quick and rough approximation of activity.
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Scintillation proximity assay (SPA) is an assay development and biochemical screening that permits the rapid and sensitive measurement of a broad range of biological processes in a homogeneous system. The type of beads that are involved in the SPA are microscopic in size and within the beads itself, there is a scintillant which emits light when it is stimulated. Stimulation occurs when radio-labelled molecules interact and bind to the surface of the bead. This interaction will trigger the bead to emit light, which can be detected using a photometer.
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Returning to England, Merman next appeared in the 1 miles October Plate at Kempton Park where he was defeated into second place as the 1/3 odds on favourite by the 4 year old mare St. Ia. Five days later on 10 October 1899 Merman returned to Newmarket and started in the Cesarewitch Stakes for the third time and finished thirteenth to 6/1 lightly weighted favourite Scintillant. In his last start of the year in the Jockey Club Cup it was noted that Merman again had to concede 18 pounds in weight to Mazagan and it seemed that his form was waning and retirement was imminent.
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Tritium (Hydrogen-3) is a very low beta energy emitter that can be used to label proteins, nucleic acids, drugs and almost any organic biomolecule. The maximum theoretical specific activity of tritium is 28.8 Ci/mmol (1.066 PBq/mol). However, there is often more than one tritium atom per molecule: for example, tritiated UTP is sold by most suppliers with carbons 5 and 6 each bonded to a tritium atom. For tritium detection, liquid scintillation counters have been classically employed, in which the energy of a tritium decay is transferred to a scintillant molecule in solution which in turn gives off photons whose intensity and spectrum can be measured by a photomultiplier array.
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