bubble chamber

noun

noun

A vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it.

These discoveries, along with others produced by bubble chambers at Argonne, Brookhaven, and CERN, supported the SU(3) particle classification.1998, Robert Bud, Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, page 100:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.