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L. W. Alvarez (Berkeley) decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible by the hydrogen bubble chamber technique and data analysis. 

The puipose of the bubble chamber in the fermentation jug (center) is to allow the carbon dioxide to escape but prevent oxygen from entering and oxidizing ethyl alcohol to acetic acid. 

Other plant-scale applications to pollution control include the flotation of suspended sewage particles by depressurizing so as to release dissolved air [Jenkins, Scherfig, and Eckhoff, Applications of Adsorptive Bubble Separation Techniques to Wastewater Treatment, in Lemlich (ed.). Adsorptive Bubble Separation Techniques, Academic, New York, 1972, chap. 14 and Richter, Internat. Chem. Eng, 16,614 (1976)]. Dissolved-air flotation is also employed in treating waste-water from pulp and paper mills [Coertze, Prog. Water TechnoL, 10, 449(1978) and Severeid, TAPPl 62(2), 61, 1979]. In addition, there is the flotation, with electrolytically released bubbles [Chambers and Cottrell, Chem. Eng, 83(16), 95 (1976)], of oily iron dust [Ellwood, Chem. Eng, 75(16), 82 (1968)] and of a variety of wastes from surface-treatment processes at the maintenance and overhaul base of an airline [Roth and Ferguson, Desalination, 23, 49 (1977)]. 

AES was developed in the late 1960s, and in this technique electrons are detected after emission from the sample as the result of a non-radiative decay of an excited atom in the surface region of the sample. The effect was first observed in bubble chamber studies by Pierre Auger (1925), a French physicist, who described the process involved. 

Particle cavitation It is produced by the beam of the elementary particles, e.g. a proton, rupturing a liquid, as in the case of a bubble chamber. 

Charged particle tracks in liquids are formally similar to cloud chamber or bubble chamber tracks. In detail, there are great differences in track lifetime and observability. Tracks in the radiation chemistry of condensed media are extremely short-lived and are not amenable to direct observation. Also, it must be remembered that in the cloud or bubble chamber, the track is actually seen at a time that is many orders of magnitude longer than the formation time of the track. The manifestation occurs through processes extraneous to track formation, such as condensation, formation of bubbles, and so forth. In a real sense, therefore, charged particle tracks in radiation chemistry are metaphysical constructs. 

Liquid hydrogen (and deuterium) is used in high-energy physics experiments as a target for the particles produced by accelerators and in bubble chambers. 

But if new instmments such as the spectroscope, cloud chamber, ionization chamber, and the Dolezalek electrometer allowed Thomson, Rutherford, and others to infer the existence of subatomic particles, the limitations of those instmments were obvious. Of course, they could never allow scientists to perceive an atom, much less an electron, directly the relationship between the body and mind of the observer and the object of observation was always essentially secondhand. Moreover, the relatively primitive nature of the instmments only allowed theories to progress so far. The advent of the cyclotron, the bubble chamber, and other instmments of high-energy physics were still years away. 

Uses Organic synthesis refrigerant fuel gas manufacture of ethylene solvent extractant aerosol propellant mixture for bubble chambers. 

Of course (as always in a delicate subject like the present one) I have my own critiques on certain points in the presentation for instance, in Section 5.3.1, coalescence is attributed to the thermal nucleation of a pore between two adjacent droplets. For me, discussing this channel is like discussing the sex of angels. Nucleation, in most physical systems, does not occur via plain thermal fluctuations. It involves external defects a cosmic ray in a bubble chamber, or a dust particle in a condenser. I believe that the same holds for emulsions dust particles (or small surfactant aggregates) control coalescence. 

Fig. 21. Bubble-chamber photograph. Nucleation of superheated ether, at 1 atm., from a Cosmotron proton beam (D. A. Glaser).

Pannell, R. and Milstein, C. (1992) An oscillating bubble chamber for laboratory scale production of monoclonal antibodies as an alternative to ascitic tumors J Immunol Methods 146,43—48... 

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