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UK
/sˈaɪklətɹˌɒn/
]
[ US /ˈsaɪkɫətɹɑn/ ]
[ US /ˈsaɪkɫətɹɑn/ ]
NOUN
- an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
How To Use cyclotron In A Sentence
- The principle of the cyclotron fails as particles accelerate close to the speed of light.
- The first genuine transuranic element was discovered at Berkeley, where Edwin McMillan used Lawrence's cyclotron in 1939 to bombard uranium with slow neutrons.
- The steel cylinder in front of him holds a document to be laid in the concrete of the synchrocyclotron building.
- The authors are to be commended for a clear and comprehensive description of how cyclotrons, originally used to study nuclear structure and interactions, were redeployed to treat cancer.
- Hypothesis Power lines, cancer and cyclotron resonance Living close to overhead power lines may increase the risk of cancer in humans.
- Five years later, twelve nations ratified the CERN convention and began building the laboratory, and the first machine, the synchrocyclotron, was switched on in 1957.
- The Berkeley cyclotron created many elements never found in nature - including plutonium, which directly follows neptunium in the periodic table.
- The Berkeley cyclotron created many elements never found in nature - including plutonium, which directly follows neptunium in the table.
- The antiproton was produced when protons from a cyclotron were used to bombard a copper target.
- The improvement of the original 1.2m cyclotron to enhance its accelerated particles-energies with increasing main magnet exciting current and reshimming the magnetic field is described.