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COUNTER, Eng. law. The name of an ancient prison in the city of London, which has now been demolished.



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The Spectro Phoenix unit utilizes an x-ray tube as its source of excitation, and a proportional counter as its detection system.
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Besides the limitations of increased sample heating, large focused electron beams from higher beam currents, and beam current stability, there are processes within the proportional counter and detector electronics limiting the count rate.
High count rate electron probe microanalysis by Herrington, Charles / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Two of the devices were position-sensitive proportional counters.
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