Sentence examples for cloud chamber from inspiring English sources
noun
A particle detector used for detecting ionizing radiation. In its most basic form, it is a sealed environment containing a supersaturated vapor of water or alcohol, in which a mist can be seen where a charged particle interacts with the mixture and it ionizes it.
Diffusion chamber, simple form of cloud chamber, a device used for radiation detection (see cloud chamber).
Clearly, there is life in the old cloud chamber yet.
This would be clearly visible by the thickness of the tracks produced in a cloud chamber.
The mainstay of Blackett's cosmic-ray research was the cloud chamber.
In the early '50s, a gas-filled cloud chamber was the primary device for observing debris from atom smashers.
The recoiling electron was observed and measured by Compton and Alfred W. Simon in a Wilson cloud chamber.
This process was observed in cloud-chamber photographs by Carl David Anderson of the United States in 1932.
Over his career, he invented more than two dozen string and percussion instruments, giving them fanciful names like cloud-chamber bowls, spoils of war and harmonic canon.
Similarly, the evidence for an existential hypothesis in the sciences may consist, for example, in cloud-chamber tracks, spectral lines, or the like, whereas the truth conditions may relate to subatomic processes or to astrophysical facts.
Stranger employs instruments like the chromelodeon and cloud-chamber bowls, contraptions dreamt up by 20th century musical theorist Harry Partch to split octaves from their usual 12 tones to 43.
When examining the tracks in a cloud-chamber or bubble-chamber photograph, one can hardly suspend disbelief in their having been caused by the passage of a small charged object.
