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cyclotron

[ UK /sˈa‍ɪklətɹˌɒn/ ]
[ US /ˈsaɪkɫətɹɑn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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