Use of the BIN +. The Bank Identification Number (BIN) is a term from the credit card industry. It refers to a six-digit number that is assigned to banks for electronic routing of transactions. Credit/debit cards that are involved in banking transactions contain a BIN on magnetic stripe.
Definition of scintillation. 1 :  an act or instance of scintillating; especially : rapid changes in the brightness of a celestial body. 2a : a spark or flash emitted in scintillatingb : a flash of light produced in a phosphor by an ionizing event.
The scintillation detector is not as versatile as the GM meter, although it can be used to look for contamination from some radioactive materials. The scintillation detector 's active portion for detecting radioactivity is a solid crystal (that is the scintillator) with which the radioactive emission must interact.