bubble chamber

1. 1.

   an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles

   Broaderparticle detector

Questions about bubble chamber

What does bubble chamber mean?

bubble chamber means "an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles".

Is bubble chamber a common word?

bubble chamber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.