Experiment 53 | THE CLOUD FORMATION EXPERIMENT (WILSON CLOUD CHAMBER)

🧪 Science Experiments That Changed the World

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C.T.R. Wilson developed the cloud chamber to study how clouds form. He later discovered it could also show tracks of charged particles.


This made it possible to observe invisible particles in real time.


It became a key tool in early particle physics.

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Example: like seeing the trail of a jet in the sky, showing where it passed.


• Visualized particle paths

• Based on cloud formation

• Made invisible processes visible

• Important for particle physics


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