Geiger-Müller threshold

[gahy-ger muhl-er, -myoo-ler]

Geiger-Müller threshold

[gahy-ger muhl-er, -myoo-ler]
noun Physics.
the minimum voltage applied to an ionization chamber, as in a Geiger counter, at which the charge collected per count is independent of the nature of the ionizing event producing the count.
Also called Geiger threshold.


Origin:
named after H. Geiger and W. Müller, 20th-century German physicist
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the reciprocal of the bulk modulus, equal to the ratio of the fractional change in volume to the stress applied to a body
of or pertaining to the molecular force within a body or substance acting to unite its parts
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