cloud chamber
noun
: a vessel containing air saturated with water vapor whose sudden expansion reveals the passage of an ionizing particle by a trail of visible droplets
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In 2023, researchers found that adding just a pinch of one special type of plant gas to a mix of more common vapors doubled cloud formation in the CERN cloud chamber.
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Max G. Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
Tracking lines arc through the expansive field, recalling cosmic rays shooting across a cloud chamber.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
The instructor taught Harris how to build a cloud chamber to investigate the collision of alpha particles with water droplets.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2024
The first cloud chamber was devised by physicist Charles Thomas Rees Wilson in 1895 to reproduce the airborne puffs and study their behavior.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2023
Those were the cosmic rays Hess detected, and are the ones most likely to show up in a museum cloud chamber.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2023
In a recent email exchange, Coppola described watching particles produced by nuclear decay fly through a Wilson cloud chamber.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2022
The photograph above shows a positron's path traveling through a cloud chamber as photographed by Anderson.
—Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2010
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Max G. Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
Tracking lines arc through the expansive field, recalling cosmic rays shooting across a cloud chamber.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
The instructor taught Harris how to build a cloud chamber to investigate the collision of alpha particles with water droplets.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2024
The first cloud chamber was devised by physicist Charles Thomas Rees Wilson in 1895 to reproduce the airborne puffs and study their behavior.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2023
Those were the cosmic rays Hess detected, and are the ones most likely to show up in a museum cloud chamber.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2023
In a recent email exchange, Coppola described watching particles produced by nuclear decay fly through a Wilson cloud chamber.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2022
The photograph above shows a positron's path traveling through a cloud chamber as photographed by Anderson.
—Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2010
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“Cloud chamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloud%20chamber. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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