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  • noun physics time allocated to a researcher for use of a beam of particles from a particular source

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beam +‎ time

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Examples

  • Dr John Barker, Group Leader of X-ray crystallography at Evotec, and his team achieved the featured diffraction pattern during beamtime at Diamond earlier this year.

    Science Minister launches World’s largest diffraction pattern at Diamond Light Source Thatsnews 2008

  • Dr John Barker, Group Leader of X-ray crystallography at Evotec, and his team achieved the featured diffraction pattern during beamtime at Diamond earlier this year.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • After the successful preliminary analysis and exiting beamtime in Grenoble the sample went back to Berkeley for further studies.

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2010

  • The Diamond User Office is the first point of contact for all users and maintains details of users and applications for beamtime via a set of web applications and an underlying Oracle database.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • After the successful preliminary analysis and exiting beamtime in Grenoble the sample went back to Berkeley for further studies.

    innovations-report 2010

  • Residues involved in significant NADP+ binding using Molprobity We thank the Australian Synchrotron, for beamtime and technical assistance.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Christopher G. Langendorf et al. 2010

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