cyclotron

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The cyclotron is a machine that creates a radioactive particle to detect cancer.

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  1. noun A circular particle accelerator in which charged subatomic particles generated at a central source are accelerated spirally outward in a plane perpendicular to a fixed magnetic field by an alternating electric field. A cyclotron is capable of generating particle energies between a few million and several tens of millions of electron volts.

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  • I could feel sure of only one thing—my conviction that he was trying to hypnotize me to the point where I would believe anything he might say HE SPOKE of the cyclotron, claiming for it the power to contrive even greater paradoxes of testimony. —  June, 1943
  • He saw Jim Forrest and Ellen Haynes, busily engaged in working over the cyclotron-target. —  August, 1947
  • The cyclotron, developed by E. O. Lawrence, of the University of California, during the past twenty years, is a device in which electrified particles are whirled in a magnetic field in a circular chamber until they reach a very high velocity, and are then led out of the chamber in a narrow stream. —  Prodigal genius - Tesla Biography
  • Reminds me of the electron-cyclotron resonance spectrum in a magnetic grid corner cusp, actually. —  AnalogSFF,October2007
  • The Lawrence Award was established in 1959 to honor the memory of the late Dr. Lawrence who invented the cyclotron (a particle accelerator) and after whom two major Energy Department laboratories at Berkeley and Livermore, California, are named. —  U.S. Department of Energy - Press Releases
 

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