The ionization type smoke detector was invented in 1931 in Switzerland.
ionization smoke detector
The smoke detectors use the photoelectric effect or a sensor based on the ionization differences between smoke and air.
Alpha particles from americium ionized the air. An air with smoke has a different ionization, ionization currents which are also different are measured, compared and the detector (which is before calibrated) is ready !
Alpha particles from americium ionized the air. An air with smoke has a different ionization, ionization currents which are also different are measured, compared and the detector (which was before calibrated) is ready ! The americium smoke detectors (with ionization) are not the first smoke detectors.
It's used in smoke detectors. It ionizes the air in the detector, and the electrons displaced by the ionization flow between two plates. Smoke disrupts this flow, the detector sees the change in current as proof of a fire and sounds the alarm.
An ionization type smokes detector with 241Am is sure if you don't destroy this device.
The ionization chamber smoke detector was invented in the early 1940s in Switzerland , and introduced into the U.S. in 1951.While American inventors upgraded burglary protection, Europeans improved the art of fire detection with the ionization smoke detector. The technology was invented in Nazi Germany to protect munitions plants in the late 1930s. Thereafter, Swiss scientists working for the firm Cerberus refined the German model. In the mid-1950s, Cerberus (now owned by Siemens) began marketing smoke detectors in America through the company Pyrene, which was owned by Baker Industries.Check these links:http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/consumer%20products/smokedetector.htm
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.
Yes, americium is used as ionizing source in smoke detectors.
actually no, the smoke detector was not proposed for a mission
Personally, I have no idea what "smoke detector tape" is.