Cyclotron

//ˈsaɪ.klə.tɹɒn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic field and alternating electric fields.

    "The two cyclotrons achieve their biological effects by focusing charged particles on the tumor. However, the mechanisms differ."

  2. 2
    an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles wordnet

Example

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"This element, considered to be radioactive and classified as a metal, is artificially produced by bombarding atoms of americium-243—an isotope of the element Americium (Am)—with ions of a rare isotope calcium-48 using a device called a cyclotron."

Etymology

From cyclo- + -tron.

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magnetic fieldparticle accelerator

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