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    cloud chamber, also known as a Wilson cloud chamber, is a particle detector used for visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation. A cloud chamber consists...
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  • Cloud Chamber is an American video game developer based in Novato, California, with a studio in Montréal, Québec. Founded by Kelley Gilmore on December...
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    meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. Wilson was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian to Annie Clark...
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    chambers include the Big European Bubble Chamber (BEBC) and Gargamelle. The bubble chamber is similar to a cloud chamber, both in application and in basic principle...
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    Vibeke Windeløv and Stinna Lassen. They are known for the video game Cloud Chamber released August 7, 2014 for Steam. In 2017 they released their latest...
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  • the water in the cloud chamber and Vc is the volume of the cloud chamber. Obtaining the mass of the liquid water in the cloud chamber is possible through...
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    spontaneously form. This is the basis of the cloud chamber for detecting subatomic particles. The concept of CCN is used in cloud seeding, which tries to encourage...
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    1930, or even as early as 1923. They state that while using a Wilson cloud chamber in order to study the Compton effect, Skobeltsyn detected particles...
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    A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped flammagenitus cloud of debris, smoke, and usually condensed water vapour resulting from a large explosion...
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    – beautiful to watch. Viewing Cloud Chamber action is closest man has come to watching the Atom! Assembly kit (Chamber can be put together in a few minutes)...
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  • on their own. Delta rays appear as branches in the main track of a cloud chamber (See Figs. 1,2). These branches will appear nearer the start of the...
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    particulate radiations such as positrons, muons, and pions were discovered by cloud chamber examination of cosmic ray reactions shortly thereafter, and others types...
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    particles would create three tracks in the cloud chamber, but instead only 2 tracks in the cloud chamber were observed. The alpha particle is absorbed...
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    Atoll named that transitory cloud a "Wilson cloud" because the same pressure effect is employed in a Wilson cloud chamber to let condensation mark the...
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    explain the origin of a giant antimatter cloud surrounding the Galactic Center. The observations show that the cloud is asymmetrical and matches the pattern...
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    Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky is a site specific outdoor artwork by Chris Drury. It was commissioned by North Carolina Museum of Art in 2003 made...
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  • like bacteria seen through a microscope or positrons detected in a cloud chamber, should be regarded as observable. Empirical evidence is essential to...
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  • spherically symmetric wave function result in linear tracks seen in a cloud chamber.: 119ff  The problem was first formulated in 1927 by Albert Einstein...
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    Anderson found that cosmic-ray collisions produced these particles in a cloud chamber – a particle detector in which moving electrons (or positrons) leave...
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    Scottish mountain weather. C. T. R. Wilson was inspired to invent the cloud chamber after a period spent working at the observatory. Ben Nevis is the Anglicisation...
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    large cloud chamber at CERN, has identified sesquiterpenes—gaseous hydrocarbons that are released by plants—as potentially playing a major role in cloud formation...
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  • difficult. Mott analyzes α {\displaystyle \alpha } -particle emission in a cloud chamber. The emission process is isotropic, a spherical wave in quantum mechanics...
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    A physicist observes alpha particles from the decay of a polonium source in a cloud chamber...
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    would be responsible for future BioShock projects. With the opening of Cloud Chamber in December 2019, it is unclear what the fate of 2K Marin is. "Take-Two...
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    shows the deflection of an alpha particle by a nucleus in the gas of a cloud chamber. Rutherford begins his 1911 paper with a head-on collision between the...
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    Coast ensemble includes replicas of the Kithara, Surrogate Kithara, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Adapted Guitars, Adapted Viola, Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba...
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    Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation, mitigate hail or disperse fog. The usual objective...
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    models, since an increase in cloud cover reduces global warming. The core of the experiment is a stainless steel chamber of 26 m3 volume filled with synthetic...
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    A homogenitus, anthropogenic or artificial cloud is a cloud induced by human activity. Although most clouds covering the sky have a purely natural origin...
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    Cloud chamber phenomena. Scientists use phenomena to refine some hypotheses and sometimes to disprove a theory. See also animated version....
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