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What is a spinthariscope?

What is a spinthariscope? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. an early device used for observing individual nuclear disintegrations
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But the most striking way of showing the emanations is by the little contrivance I call a spinthariscope.
A simple form of apparatus called the spinthariscope has been devised to show these scintillations.
Leo and his friends also took the spinthariscope to an out-of-town astronomers convention and advertised that they had developed an optical system that could penetrate clouds.
In 1903 he invented the spinthariscope to detect alpha particles emitted by radioactive elements.

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