Wilson cloud chamber
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Wilson cloud chamber
[′wil·sən ′klau̇d ‚chām·bər] (nucleonics)
A cloud chamber containing air supersaturated with water vapor by sudden expansion, in which rapidly moving nuclear particles such as alpha or beta rays produced ionization tracks by condensation of vapor on the ions produced by the rays.
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