Sentence examples for instrument for detecting from inspiring English sources

The only serious problem, engineers said, is that the instrument for detecting radiation on and around Mars stopped communicating and had to be turned off last August.

Electroscope, instrument for detecting the presence of an electric charge or of ionizing radiation, usually consisting of a pair of thin gold leaves suspended from an electrical conductor that leads to the outside of an insulating container.

We used the CAM-ICU as an instrument for detecting delirium.

The Quartz Crystal Microbalance is an extremely sensitive instrument for detecting surface and thin-film changes, with sensitivities in the nanogram regime.

The aim was to address which sensor could be a more precise instrument for detecting the type and level of a variety of common adulterants in grape syrup.

However, studies [36, 42] have shown the clock drawing test not to be a good screening instrument for detecting the very earliest signs of dementia.

On instruments for detecting earthquakes, such a nuclear explosion would measure a magnitude of about 4, like a small tremor.

Only a few instruments — for detecting weather conditions and radiation — will function during that period.

Instruments for detecting movements in the Earth's crust help understand and track earthquakes.

He calls for increased American investment in verification tools, including satellites, seismic monitors and instruments for detecting radiation releases and nuclear electromagnetic pulses.

By Henry S. F. Cooper The New Yorker, February 5 , 1979P. 41 REPORTER AT LARGE about Viking 1, the first of two spacecraft, equipped with instruments for detecting life, which landed on Mars in the summer of 1976.