Seeing The Subatomic: With a cloud chamber, you can actually watch the subatomic radioactive particles all around you.(How 2.0: Hacks, Upgrades, Projects, Gripes, Tips & Tricks/Gray Matter)

Popular Science | March 1, 2005| | Copyright

Byline: Theodore Gray

Sometimes, in an alcoholic fog, I can see individual subatomic particles zipping by in front of my eyes. It takes pretty strong stuff to make this happen--pure 200-proof grain alcohol, denatured alcohol from the hardware store, or 100 percent isopropyl. Rum and vodka are too watered-down.

Before someone stages an intervention, I should mention that the alcohol is not in me, it's in a sealed case called a cloud chamber, which allows you to see, in plain sight, products of radioactive decay--the paths of zooming subatomic particles--in a ...

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