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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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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.
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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The thing with this one is it's 100% harmless if you keep it outside your body, with regards to the radiation. Throw it hard enough and it can do some harm, I suppose...
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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.
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[–] 9-11 [S] 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago (edited ago)
other various compounds in a cloud chamber, can see finer details
DIY with dry ice
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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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber#Structure_and_operation
[–] l-emmerdeur 1 point 11 points 12 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.
[–] BigCheeze 0 points 8 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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there is this in the meantime until we develop the cybernetic implant eye augmentation chip
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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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[–] KyJoCaThe2nd 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
The thing with this one is it's 100% harmless if you keep it outside your body, with regards to the radiation. Throw it hard enough and it can do some harm, I suppose...
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Sorry.. what's a cloud chamber?
[–] l-emmerdeur 0 points 15 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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Pew pew pew!
[–] 01011011101101 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Coolest thing i've seen in 2015 so far.
[–] bakcha 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I had no idea anything like a cloud chamber existed.