Associations to the word «Cyclotron»

Wiktionary

CYCLOTRON, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

CYCLOTRON, noun. An accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles.

Wise words

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