Cloud chamber photograph showing the conversion of a gamma ray into an electron-positron pair. Gamma rays do not leave tracks in a cloud chamber because they have no electric charge. But if they have enough energy,they can reveal themselves by converting into matter & antimatter,as in this case. Because they have opposite electric charge,the electron & positron curl away in opposite directions in the cloud chamber's magnetic field. Gamma rays are a very energetic form of light (electromagnetic radiation). They are also one of the 3 types of radiation emitted by radioactive materials. The photo was taken by French physicists Irene Curie & Frederic Joliot | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / I. CURIE & F. JOLIOT |
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