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Cyclotron   Listen
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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.






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... his next question when Porter said: "I know the name doesn't tell you much, but then, names never do, do they? You know what a transformer does, but what does the name by itself convey? Nothing, unless you know what it does in the first place. A cyclotron cycles something, but what? A broadcaster casts something abroad—what? ...
— By Proxy • Gordon Randall Garrett



Words linked to "Cyclotron" :   particle accelerator, atom smasher, bevatron



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