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smoke...The reason that sometimes we cannot see smoke is because of the very tiny "particulates" that make up the smoke. A good smoke detector mwill sense smoke long before it can be seen. It is particles in air that are very very small that a smoke detector detects.

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in a large room , eg living room , they will not detect , an airplane toilet , well that's another story

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If cigarette smoke gets built up enough in a room where the smoke detector is, it will set it off. One way to test a smoke detector is to blow smoke into it.

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The isotope americium-241 as an alpha particles source for ionization.

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