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cyclotron
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1935, from cyclo- + ending from electron .
Wikipedia
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Cyclotron is the third album by Blind Idiot God , released in 1992 through Avant Records . It became the band's final studio album for twenty-three years after drummer Ted Epstein left the band in 1996, causing the band to go on an indefinite hiatus. Cyclotron ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic and alternating electric fields.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cyclotron \cyclotron\ n. a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
Usage examples of cyclotron.
They had gone back to an even earlier stage, a crude expansion of the cyclotron principle.
In some ways the fire was well located: at the back of the Tech Area, away from the gas stocks, cyclotron and particle accelerator, near the fire station and close to hydrants.
Tech Area: physicists from the cyclotron shack, soldiers from the boiler house, doctors from the medical labs, office clerks and, in front, the Indians who swept every building.
In this multimillion-pound complex, tiny samples of water or carbon compounds arc placed at the heart of a cyclotron which fires vastly accelerated ion beams at them, creating very short-lived isotopes.
Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.
This has been inevitable since the minute we figured out how to break up quarks en masse without a cyclotron.
With all of their noisy devotion to the age of science, their hysterically technological jargon, their cyclotrons, their sound rays, these men were moved forward, not by the image of an industrial skyline, but by the vision of that form of existence which the industrialists had swept away—the vision of a fat, unhygienic rajah of India, with vacant eyes staring in indolent stupor out of stagnant layers of flesh, with nothing to do but run precious gems through his fingers and, once in a while, stick a knife into the body of a starved, toil-dazed, germeaten creature, as a claim to a few grains of the creature's rice, then claim it from hundreds of millions of such creatures and thus let the rice grains gather into gems.
That stuff to the leftthat's a neat little thing for doing what men have been trying to do with hundred-ton cyclotrons and so forth.
Here is learning that our ancients possessed, as did the men of alchemy, but that the builders of cyclotrons have lost.
At both ends of the linear accelerator, electron-positron pairs were created in small cyclotrons.