With increasing spatial frequency, the pattern appeared to scintillate and became increasingly ill-defined (splotchy) as orientation identification performance fell to chance level.
It was like a great fountain which you can admire while it is playing—every droplet scintillating with light.
Here was a syllogism that scintillated.
Detectors coated with materials which scintillate when subjected to gamma rays are scanned with optical photon detectors and scintillation counters.
Luminescent materials, when struck by an incoming particle, absorb its energy and scintillate, (i.e., re-emit the absorbed energy in the form of light).
Scintillators are luminescent materials that, when struck by an incoming particle, absorb its energy and scintillate emit light.
