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Cloud chamber (Wilson chamber) Observe decay of atom.

$ 87.11

Availability: 30 in stock
  • Classroom equipment:: Cloud chambers & spinthariscopes
  • Modified Item: No
  • Condition: Works well. How it works can be seen in the photos.
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation

    Description

    Lot of one Cloud chamber.
    It is rare equipment from last age used in
    educational classrooms (physics experiments) to visualization radioactivity of natural minerals and uranium ore. For run this chamber you need
    source (uranium mineral or other alpha-source)
    and a little bit of alcohol.
    NO dry ice and NO cooling like for other cloud chambers.
    On images you can see tracks by alpha-particles from uranium ore and from alpha-source (smoke detector source).
    The
    Cloud chamber (also called Wilson cloud chamber) is a particle detector used for detecting ionization radiation and visualization charged particles.
    In its most basic form, a cloud chamber is a sealed environment containing a supersaturated vapour of water or alcohol. When a charged particle (for example, an alpha or beta particle) interacts with the mixture, the fluid is ionized. The resulting ions act as condensation nuclei, around which a mist will form (because the mixture is on the point of condensation). The high energies of alpha and beta particles mean that a trail is left, due to many ions being produced along the path of the charged particle. These tracks have distinctive shapes (for example, an alpha particle's track is broad and shows more evidence of deflection by collisions, while an electron's is thinner and straight). When any uniform magnetic field is applied across the cloud chamber, positively and negatively charged particles will curve in opposite directions, according to the Lorentz force law with two particles of opposite charge.
    To see
    the tracks
    of alpha
    particles
    need to pour
    a few drops
    *
    of
    alcohol into the pump.
    Connect pump to the chamber  and push on pump few times. In the chamber
    is formed
    high
    vapor pressure of
    alcohol at
    the pushing on
    pump.
    Supersaturated
    alcohol vapor
    will be formed when
    the pump
    will released
    .
    At this point
    you can
    see a lot of
    lines -
    tracks
    of alpha
    particles.
    * -
    I added
    about
    0.1ml
    of alcohol into the
    hand pump
    .
    And tracks
    began
    appearing
    after
    few push-release cycles (see images)
    Minerals, source and few drops of alcohol not included.
    S
    hipping with tracking via airmail.
    Have any questions please contact me.
    See
    my other scientific and nuclear lab auctions
    ;)