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[–] Womb_Raider 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This is so cool.

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[–] scorinth 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Pew pew pew!

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[–] 9-11 [S] 0 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago  (edited ago)

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[–] WakkoWarner 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

That is very interesting, thank you. One question, why the cold bottom? Isn't a warm top sufficient to make alcohol evaporate? Can you substitute dry ice with normal ice or Peltier cells?

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[–] 9-11 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

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[–] slyguy42o 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Sorry.. what's a cloud chamber?

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[–] l-emmerdeur 0 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago  (edited ago)

That little box uses special atmospheric conditions so that the alpha particles 'shooting' off of the mass of uranium force some water vapor in said box to condensate in their wake.

The streaks are, in a simple sense, the wakes left by the 'radioactivity' shooting off of that little rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber

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[–] l-emmerdeur 1 point 11 points (+12|-1) ago 

There's so much to physics that you'll have to just accept that you'll never get that satisfying visualization of.

But when you do get one it's titties.

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[–] tame ago 

If you want a satisfying visualisation of the physical behaviour of a lump of adipose tissue contained in a thin sheet of taut elastic material, it's definitely titties.

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[–] BigCheeze 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

It would be titties if one day we have the ability to observe every frequency with our own eyes in real time. An off/on switch to this ability is key tho otherwise it would be, no-titties. And no one wants to live in a no-titties world.

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