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1. Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 03:01:49 UTC Laurelai Bailey

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   @mona Im learning how cloud chambers are made right now and it doesnt look too hard

   • Mona Drafter ⚥ (mona@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 03:05:37 UTC Mona Drafter ⚥

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     @Laurelai it isn't! I recommend turning to the archives of _Scientific American_; in their glory days, when they ran a column called "The Amateur Scientist", cloud chambers were a popular thing to construct, operating both by Wilson's method (sudden expansion of a chamber) and by the "diffusion" method (using dry ice to maintain the cloud layer.)

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   • Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 03:06:35 UTC Laurelai Bailey

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     • Mona Drafter ⚥

     @mona I think i remember those issues, i used to read them as a kid

   • Mona Drafter ⚥ (mona@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 03:08:51 UTC Mona Drafter ⚥

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     @Laurelai both Geiger's counter and Wilson's cloud chamber work on a very similar principle: deliberately creating an unstable physical system, one that is very far out of equilibrium and therefore subject to instantaneous change in response to a small stimulus

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   • Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 03:10:00 UTC Laurelai Bailey

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     • Mona Drafter ⚥

     @mona I find the whole thing fascinating tbh. I remember trying to explain radioactive decay to my second grade class and how elements

   • Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 03:17:30 UTC Laurelai Bailey

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     • Mona Drafter ⚥

     @mona Ive watched some videos and cloud chamber is now definitely on my list of things to make

   • Codeawayhaley️ ⚑☭⚝✅ (codeawayhaley@lgbt.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 04:32:55 UTC Codeawayhaley️ ⚑☭⚝✅

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     • Mona Drafter ⚥

     @Laurelai @mona Wilson's cloud chamber was the first cosmic ray detector, which is usually protons, or large particles so it is likely only going to detect neutron radiation & alpha, not gamma, or beta,

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