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  2. Cloud chamber - Wikipedia

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    A cloud chamber, also known as a Wilson chamber, is a particle detector used for visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation. A cloud chamber consists of a sealed environment containing a supersaturated vapor of water or alcohol .

  3. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert cloud chamber, assembled An alternative view of kit contents. The lab contained a cloud chamber allowing the viewer to watch alpha particles traveling at 12,000 miles per second (19,000,000 m/s), a spinthariscope showing the results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen, and an electroscope measuring the radioactivity of different substances in the set.

  4. Renninger negative-result experiment - Wikipedia

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    In Renninger's 1960 formulation, the cloud chamber is replaced by a pair of hemispherical particle detectors, completely surrounding a radioactive atom at the center that is about to decay by emitting an alpha ray. For the purposes of the thought experiment, the detectors are assumed to be 100% efficient, so that the emitted alpha ray is always ...

  5. Particle detector - Wikipedia

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    Bubble chamber; Wilson cloud chamber (diffusion chamber) Photographic plate (Nuclear emulsion) Detectors for radiation protection. The following types of particle detector are widely used for radiation protection, and are commercially produced in large quantities for general use within the nuclear, medical, and environmental fields. Dosimeter

  6. Radiation - Wikipedia

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    Gamma radiation detected in an isopropanol cloud chamber. Gamma (γ) radiation consists of photons with a wavelength less than 3 × 10 −11 m (greater than 10 19 Hz and 41.4 keV). [4] Gamma radiation emission is a nuclear process that occurs to rid an unstable nucleus of excess energy after most nuclear reactions. Both alpha and beta particles ...

  7. Delta ray - Wikipedia

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    Collectively, these electrons are defined as delta radiation when they have sufficient energy to ionize further atoms through subsequent interactions 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 track of a heavy charged particle, where more ...

  8. Alpha particle - Wikipedia

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    The radiation appeared to have two different characters, the first he called "radiation" and the more penetrating one he called "radiation". After five years of additional experimental work, Rutherford and Hans Geiger determined that "the alpha particle, after it has lost its positive charge, is a Helium atom".

  9. Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness - Wikipedia

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    Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness [a] is a role-playing video game in the Pokémon series developed by Genius Sonority and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo.It was released for the GameCube on August 4, 2005, in Japan; October 3, 2005, in North America; November 10, 2005, in Australia; and November 18, 2005, in Europe.