Gargamelle Bubble Chamber
Do you wonder what a huge tank of 12,000 liters of liquid hydrogen could be used for? The Gargamelle Bubble Chamber is a large, cylinder shaped tank/chamber. It was full of pressurised liquid hydrogen. The camber was used to detect charged particles. The chamber needed many things to work, it detected bubble paths , and it took pictures to gather evidence of charges.
The chamber worked by using neutrons, particles, charged plates, cameras, and liquid hydrogen. The chamber was first filled with hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas was then heated and pressurized causing it to turn into liquid hydrogen. Then neutrons would be shot into the liquid hydrogen. When the neutrons ran into a particle the liquid hydrogen would boil shooting bits of the particle out forming trails of bubbles. A camera would capture pictures, and last its pressure would go up to get rid of all the old bubble trails. This would cause the bubbles to disappear to have a clean slate for more neutrons. The bubble trails where the …show more content…
Through the pictures you can tell what happened went and what the positive and negative charged particles. The one thing that you can not tell is the neutrally charged particles. This is because they do not form bubble trails leaving no mark or pull towards either plate. But a problem with the pictures was that they were in 2D, so you needed many different picture with all different angles at of the same thing. It was very hard to transfer them to 3D by hand.
The chamber was a huge advance in the science industry being able to detect positive and negative charges including protons and electrons. To work properly it need many parts (ectopically nutons). It could show the bubble paths, and it could record data with its many pictures. It could detect protons neutrons and see if thing had a large or small mass. I wonder where would we be without the amazing accomplishments of Donald
Do you wonder what a huge tank of 12,000 liters of liquid hydrogen could be used for? The Gargamelle Bubble Chamber is a large, cylinder shaped tank/chamber. It was full of pressurised liquid hydrogen. The camber was used to detect charged particles. The chamber needed many things to work, it detected bubble paths , and it took pictures to gather evidence of charges.
The chamber worked by using neutrons, particles, charged plates, cameras, and liquid hydrogen. The chamber was first filled with hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas was then heated and pressurized causing it to turn into liquid hydrogen. Then neutrons would be shot into the liquid hydrogen. When the neutrons ran into a particle the liquid hydrogen would boil shooting bits of the particle out forming trails of bubbles. A camera would capture pictures, and last its pressure would go up to get rid of all the old bubble trails. This would cause the bubbles to disappear to have a clean slate for more neutrons. The bubble trails where the …show more content…
Through the pictures you can tell what happened went and what the positive and negative charged particles. The one thing that you can not tell is the neutrally charged particles. This is because they do not form bubble trails leaving no mark or pull towards either plate. But a problem with the pictures was that they were in 2D, so you needed many different picture with all different angles at of the same thing. It was very hard to transfer them to 3D by hand.
The chamber was a huge advance in the science industry being able to detect positive and negative charges including protons and electrons. To work properly it need many parts (ectopically nutons). It could show the bubble paths, and it could record data with its many pictures. It could detect protons neutrons and see if thing had a large or small mass. I wonder where would we be without the amazing accomplishments of Donald