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Fluoroscope   Listen
noun
Fluoroscope  n.  
1.
(Phys.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.
2.
(Physics) A fluorescent screen, with hood to protect the eyes, used for observing the shadows cast by objects placed in the path of the X rays.






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"Fluoroscope" Quotes from Famous Books



... large scale; some of his work being recorded in an article in the Century Magazine of May, 1896, where a great deal of data may be found. Edison says with regard to this work: "When the X-ray came up, I made the first fluoroscope, using tungstate of calcium. I also found that this tungstate could be put into a vacuum chamber of glass and fused to the inner walls of the chamber; and if the X-ray electrodes were let into the glass chamber and a proper vacuum was attained, you could get ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin



Words linked to "Fluoroscope" :   X-ray machine, roentgenoscope



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