bubble chamber
noun
: a chamber of superheated liquid in which the path of an ionizing particle is made visible by a string of vapor bubbles
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Here, neutrinos are detected in a bubble chamber, 2003.
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Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
Contributed to the Manhattan Project and several key government radar projects in World War II; won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber.
—Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
In 1960, Glaser won a Nobel Prize for inventing the bubble chamber, a device used to trace the path of subatomic particles.
—Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2019
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Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
Contributed to the Manhattan Project and several key government radar projects in World War II; won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber.
—Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
In 1960, Glaser won a Nobel Prize for inventing the bubble chamber, a device used to trace the path of subatomic particles.
—Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2019
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