An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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A tank filled with a transparent liquid that is on the brink of boiling. When a charged particle passes through the liquid, the energy deposited initiates boiling along the path, leaving a trail of tiny bubbles. The bubble chamber is no longer in wide use for particle experiments.

→ bubble; → chamber.

An enclosed space making part of a laboratory apparatus, such as → bubble chamber, → cloud chamber, → multiwire proportional chamber.

M.E., from O.Fr. chambre, from L.L. camera "a chamber, room."

Otâqak "small room, small chamber," cf. Sogdian ôtâk "place, region," ôtâkcik "local, regional, native" + -ak diminutive suffix.

An early type of → bubble chamber used for detecting particles of ionizing radiation. It was invented in 1900 by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), a Scottish physicist, who along with Arthur Compton (1892-1962 ) received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1927.

→ cloud; → chamber.

A large cavity within the Earth's → crust containing → magma. When a → vent is opened to the surface, magma is extruded onto the surface as → lava.

→ magma; → chamber.

Same as → Charpak's detector.

→ multi-; → wire; → proportional; → chamber.

An enclosure from which air is removed.

→ vacuum; → chamber.