This phenomenon was shown by means of an instrument called the " Spinthariscope ."
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This ring was a miniature spinthariscope that actually had a small amount of radioisotope in it to produce the scintillations caused by nuclear reactions.
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A "'spinthariscope "'is a device for observing individual nuclear disintegrations caused by the interaction of ionizing radiation with a phosphor ( see radioluminescence ) or scintillator.
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It also allowed for the invention of a spinthariscope, which soon became the item everyone wanted in order to show that they were up to date on the new science discoveries at the time.
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I got a pair of Lone Ranger atomic bomb rings, one of which is in good condition that I won't mess with, one of which is basically just the spinthariscope component and so I don't mind playing with it a bit.
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In his investigations of the conduction of electricity in low pressure gases, he discovered that as the pressure was lowered, the negative electrode ( cathode ) appeared to emit rays ( the so-called " cathode rays ", now known to be a stream of free electrons, and used in plasma and identified it as the fourth state of matter in 1879 . He also devised one of the first instruments for the studying nuclear radioactivity, the spinthariscope.