How do smoke alarms detect smoke? (part 1)
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Ionized Particles in the Air
In my imagination, I'm this chemistry off the cup. This is in my imagination is that there's all kinds of ionized particles in there. And it might be too that some of the radiation itself, like those alpha particles might be involved. So either way, electrons are flowing to make an electric current. That tells the smoke detector that everything is okay. Yes. It's hard to not expect it to be. If I don't hear from you for 10 minutes, I'm like, chase dead. Yeah. There's definitely enough there where I're like, this is a tough one, but I think I get the gist of it. But there's so many little parts of
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