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Updated: October 24, 2026
The small end was composed of a disk of special chemical that fluoresced when struck by an atomic particle. The little instrument used a principle dating back to the early history of atomic energy, when scientists were exploring the nature of the strange force the Curies had discovered in radium and polonium.