How do smoke alarms detect smoke? (part 1)
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Radiation Chemistry of the Ionizing Smoke Detector
The ionizing smoke detector has worked. That's definitely a lot there and certainly way more out of expected smoke detectors. What do you think you thought happened in them? I guess I thought there was some specific element that maybe it could like kind of detect for and smoke, you know, that like maybe isn't already in the ear but that might not really be true or how would it detect it? Okay. How, you know,. other than something like this, where it interrupts the circuit,you know, I could think of one other way, but I won't tell you till next week. Wow. So that's how ionized, well, the ionizing smoke sensor has worked
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