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A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations (arstechnica.com)

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Scientists are learning more about “sesquiterpenes" vapors made from trees.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] twack 8 points 1 year ago

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.