How do smoke alarms detect smoke? (part 1)
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Positive and Negative Charges of Smoke
So if those smoke particles that are starting to float up and get in with the air, the atoms that are they're helium. So there as they are able to steal electrons from the atoms in the air. But if smoke starts getting intermixed into that, they can't do that. And so you kind of, so you missed the charged plates. They line up. I think they it ionizes the air. It goes and interacts with things. There's lots of reactions happening to ionizing molecules in the air right. Right. The energy that's emitted, if there is the gamma energy, which was not clear to me, I got conflicting information. Not probably also putting energy
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