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    BORON CHAMBER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutronsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("boron chamber" is a kind of...):

    ionization chamber; ionization tube (a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation)

    Holonyms ("boron chamber" is a part of...):

    boron counter tube (a proportional counter tube for counting neutrons)

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