01373 IUPAC Gold Book - counter tube 10.1351/goldbook.C01373 C01373 current 1 Radiation detector consisting of a gas-filled tube or valve whose gas amplification is much greater than one, and in which the individual ionizing events give rise to discrete electrical pulses. Often an expression is added indicating the geometry (e.g. end window), composition of the gas (e.g. helium) or the physical process for its operation (e.g. proton recoil, fission). Radiation detector https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/R05054 proton https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/P04906 PAC, 1982, 54, 1533. 'Glossary of terms used in nuclear analytical chemistry (Provisional)' on page 1538 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac198254081533) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01373/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01373/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01373/plain Citation: 'counter tube' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.C01373 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-08-03T04:16:35+00:00