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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
spark chamber in physics, device for recording the passage of elementary particles produced by reactions in a particle accelerator . Particles pass through a stack of metal plates or wire grids that are maintained with high voltage between alternate layers. A high-pressure gas fills the gaps between the plates and is ionized along the path of the traversing charged particle. As a result, sparks jump between adjacent, oppositely charged plates and the trail of sparks left by the particle is seen as a series of dashes. The spark chamber has replaced the bubble chamber in certain... Read more
spark chamber
A Dictionary of Astronomy spark chamber A device that shows the path of a charged...it triggers a high-voltage pulse to the spark chamber. The ions generated by the passage of the particle allow a spark to travel between the plates along the... Read more
Spark Plug
How Products Are Made Spark Plug Background The purpose of a spark plug is to provide a place for an electric spark that is hot enough to ignite the air/fuel mixture inside the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. This is done by a high voltage current arcing across a gap on the spark plug. A ... Read more

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