Geiger counter

https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.G02598
A @G02582@ in which gas amplification reaches @S05472@ and proportionality no longer exists. The output signal does not depend on the incident energy. The time taken for the counter to recover from the @S05472@ is called @D01529@.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1745. (Nomenclature, symbols, units and their usage in spectrochemical analysis-XI. Detection of radiation (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)) on page 1754 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'Geiger counter' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.G02598 RIS BibTex EndNote
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