What is another term for the cloud chamber?
Fog Chamber
Dust Chamber
Steam Chamber
Mist Chamber
Answer
Fog Chamber, also known as the cloud chamber, is a particle detector invented by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson in 1911. It is used to study the trajectories of charged particles. The chamber is filled with a supersaturated vapor, and when a charged particle passes through it, it leaves a trail of ions.
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