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IT has frequently been remarked1 that although diamond crystals which are very efficient as conduction counters of ionizing radiations are usually free from birefringence, there is no strong correlation between counting efficiency and the degree of birefringence of counting crystals of average performance. Conversely, it may be inferred that the performance of diamonds as crystal counters will be almost independent of pressure at pressures which produce considerable artificial birefringence, and the following experiments have confirmed this supposition.
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Champion, F. C., Sci. Prog., 179, 447 (1957).
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CHAMPION, F., PRIOR, J. Effects of Pressure on some Optical and Electrical Properties of Diamonds. Nature 182, 1079–1080 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821079a0
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