Uranium in a cloud chamber: observing the process of radiation emission & decaypic.twitter.com/VohhlGpvt3
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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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Yes, that is a cosmic ray muon track. If the hot uraninite aka pitchblende source was removed then more cosmic ray tracks will be revealed. Here is cloud chamber video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efgy1bV2aQo …
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if the longer tracks coming off the uranium are beta decays as I expect then I think that track is too thick to be a muon. but also too long to be alpha. I kinda see a few lil wispies coming off the edge, so maybe even a proton & some delta ray electrons?pic.twitter.com/T13pOjkyJR
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I'm not an expert... I just built one of these recently and read up a bit
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Perfectly possible. I used a cloud chamber many many years ago to search for cosmic rays, part of my physics degree project.
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Possibly. Flux has fisen 12.5% in 3 yrs due to low solar activity.
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Aren’t the fat tracks alpha-particles? And the thin tracks are muons or electrons (I think those latter two can be distinguished by their shape).
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yummy muons.... cosmic rays do not reach the surface... but muons do.... collect them and make Deuterium D2 gas with it.. MUONS REPLACING THE ELECTRONS..and they say it becomes possible to have fusion at very low temperatures... yummy muons...
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