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Hello, what is the best way to make a, simply electrically driven cloud chamber?
I want a cloud chamber I can simply hook up and keep topped off with alcohol, and view radioactive traces.
Anyone here have any designs?

>> No.1769978

>>1769976

A load of peltiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh3bxXHqF2U

His is a bit crap, but you get the idea. Anything else is going to involve a refrigeration system, which instantly yeets your "simple" requirement out the window.

>> No.1770389

>>1769978
Peltiers aren't THAT complicated, but it's probably more complicated than OP was gunning for.

I've found this dude to do a great job of explaining...pretty much anything (he is also not ugly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWUhwmmZa7A&list=PLzrI14lOlSqeS5pNkRCiV1-yhoBlCmxms&index=6
There's a whole series on using Peltiers to build a solid state refrigerator.

>> No.1770474

>>1770389
>crazy science teacher grampa
he's a fucking cool guy.
>also not ugly
I hope i'm as enigmatic as he is when i'm his age.

>> No.1770530

>>1769978
Aren't peltiers stupid inefficient?
Without a method of removing heat from the hot side with fans/radiator he's just going to make the box even hotter than doing nothing.

>> No.1771769

>>1769976
I did this years ago with dry ice, and some old watch with radio active paint. Was pretty fun.

>> No.1772204

>>1770530
>Aren't peltiers stupid inefficient?

Literally over an order of magnitude less efficient than a phase-change refrigeration system.

But OP didn't specify "efficient", he specified "simple".

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