scintillator???

[hank reynolds 3rd]

what does this do???
it looks like some sort of filtery thing to me ,but  not sure.....


sam

[smoguzbenjamin]

Try google!  

[hank reynolds 3rd]

aaahhh.....
'

A scintillator is a material that gives off light when a chargedGlossary Term particle passes through it. Typically it is a form of plastic, produced with traces of certain elements that are readily excited by the passing charged particle and then rapidly decayGlossary Term, thereby producing a photon.

Scintillator materials typically have a high index of refraction, so it is relatively easy to shape a piece of scintillator so that much of the light produced inside it is reflected off its surfaces and back into the material, and is eventually funneled into a phototube detectorGlossary Term placed at the end of a narrow wedge of the material.'

shoulda put the link in my earlier post.....
http://www.geocities.com/munkydiy/scintillator.gif


i'm still leaning towards some sorta filter thing, i just wondered if anyone else had tried it,etc......
cheers

sam

[smoguzbenjamin]

From the explanation: It's a LED. probably.