How do smoke alarms detect smoke? (part 1)
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Gamma Energy of Electrons
gamma energy is basically that where an excited electron relaxes back down to the ground state. The exact amount of energy between the excited and the relaxed states is in the gamma range on the electromagnetic electromagnetic spectrum. So they just essentially give off radioactive energy instead of visible light or something like that. We've talked about that where we can see it visually because it's in the range of visible light. Yes.
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