my sources tell me that this vertical line is a cosmic ray (or an incident muon) .. anyone with a better understanding of cloud chambers want to chime in?pic.twitter.com/SJVmXzIOCs
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Uranium in a cloud chamber: observing the process of radiation emission & decaypic.twitter.com/VohhlGpvt3
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It's really cool when they launch at funky angles. Is that due to quantum uncertainty?
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the funky angles are most likely due to the jagged shape of the material radiating
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We have a small cloud chamber at Uni. Always wondered what would happen if I put a banana on it
Is a banana radioactive enough to see it clearly above the background of cosmic rays?
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It's mostly photons produced by the potassium 40 decay in a banana. A bit of electrons too, but nothing like the heavy alpha decay of uranium.
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Longer video at http://www.cloudylabs.fr/wp/experiences/ with a lot of explanations (mostly in French but some in English) to interpret the tracks (here alpha particles seen from Uranimum 238 decays in pitchblende ore). The dose rate is roughly 100 times larger than average natural one.
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In the clip you can also see a pair of paths not radial towards the uranium piece, I'm guessing these might be from the ambient or exterior radiation and not the uranium piece itself.
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this is wild
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I really want to make a cloud chamber....probably not with uranium though
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