A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations
A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations
Scientists are learning more about “sesquiterpenes" vapors made from trees.
Scientists are learning more about “sesquiterpenes" vapors made from trees.
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by injecting the steel chamber with vapors that represent specific environments. (It’s called the CLOUD chamber, for Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets.)
It's a chamber they use to make clouds. Couldn't they just call it the Cloud Chamber, without resorting to the most awkward, contrived acronym I've ever seen?
I'm not educated in this matter at all, this is just a guess with no basis.
A "cloud chamber" is a device used to detect radiation, and it has been that for a long time. Perhaps they wanted to distance themselves from that device, hence the strained acronym CLOUD.