ALL meanings of bubble chamber
bub·ble cham·ber
B b - noun bubble chamber a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles 3
- noun bubble chamber a container filled with a superheated, transparent liquid in which charged atomic particles and their collisions can be studied by photographing the bubbles and violent boiling that occur along their paths 3
- noun bubble chamber an apparatus for determining the movements of charged particles, consisting of a chamber containing a superheated transparent liquid that, by boiling and producing bubbles in the path of an ionizing particle, indicates the path of the particle. 1
- noun bubble chamber A vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. 0