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- noun physics A
magnetic device used toconfine aplasma , especially one used to sustainnuclear fusion
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Examples
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Then they take him to see the stellarator, which looks like a contemporary sculpture.
Energy Secretary Chu in sprint to put stimulus to work on renewable innovations Steven Mufson 2010
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Then they take him to see the stellarator, which looks like a contemporary sculpture.
Energy Secretary Chu in sprint to put stimulus to work on renewable innovations Steven Mufson 2010
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In a stellarator, the helical lines of force are produced by a series of coils which may themselves be helical in shape.
Nuclear fusion power 2009
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Another stellarator, TJ-II, is under construction in Madrid, Spain.
Nuclear fusion power 2009
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According to our records, you are drawing royalties from three patented improvements in the stellarator which were discovered at times when you were employed by us -- or, rather, by one of our associative corporations -- in an advisory capacity.
Damned If You Don't Randall Garrett 1957
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While tokamak, stellarator or laser fusion devices are quite common in the world and they producing a number of publications every year.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Forget CERN's little science gizmo - the supersexy science machine title belongs to Japan's, the world's largest superconducting stellarator* that employs a heliotron magnetic field.
Neatorama 2008
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Forget CERN's little science gizmo - the supersexy science machine title belongs to Japan's, the world's largest superconducting stellarator* that employs a heliotron magnetic field.
Neatorama 2008
qroqqa commented on the word stellarator
Not only is it called a stellarator, the one they are about to inject hydrogen into* has the supremely unbelievable name of the Wendelstein X-7 stellarator.
* Jack Lemmon: 'Inject the hydrogen, Max! Mwah-ha-ha!'
February 3, 2016