#cloudylabs

[blondie-illuminati]

radioactive Uranium isotope

[picturesquephysics]

Watch Uranium emit radiation 

CloudyLabs have made a video showing a small piece of uranium mineral in a cloud chamber – a sealed glass container cooled to -40°C (-40°F) – topped with a layer of liquid alcohol, in the process of decay and radiation emission.

CloudyLabs explains exactly what you're seeing, "most of the vapor condenses on the glass surface creating a mist, but a small fraction of it stays in vapour form above the cold condenser. This creates a layer of unstable saturated vapor which can condense at any moment. When a charged particle crosses this vapor, it can knock electrons off the molecules forming ions. It causes the unstable alcohol vapor to condense around ions left behind by the travelling ionizing particle: the path of the particle in the matter is then revealed by a track composed of thousands droplets of alcohol."

[gauldame]

Uranium sample in a cloud chamber, 50 minutes. Cloudylabs explains what is happening in the description. My focus is biotech and genetics but this is still cool to watch.