Table 1 Some properties of BC-400 plastic scintillator and the comparison to water (At STP).

From: High spatial resolution scintillator dosimetry of synchrotron microbeams

Quantity

BC-400

Water

Density (g/cm3)

1.023

0.998

Electron density (e/cm3)

3.37 × 1023

3.33 × 1023

Composition

Polyvinyltoluene [CH2CH(C6H4CH3)]n

H2O

  1. Scintillator data from Saint-Gobain Crystals27.