Scientists are learning more about “sesquiterpenes" vapors made from trees.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    by injecting the steel chamber with vapors that represent specific environments. (It’s called the CLOUD chamber, for Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets.)

    It’s a chamber they use to make clouds. Couldn’t they just call it the Cloud Chamber, without resorting to the most awkward, contrived acronym I’ve ever seen?

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      81 year ago

      I’m not educated in this matter at all, this is just a guess with no basis.

      A “cloud chamber” is a device used to detect radiation, and it has been that for a long time. Perhaps they wanted to distance themselves from that device, hence the strained acronym CLOUD.