Definitions for cyclotron
ˈsaɪ kləˌtrɒn, ˈsɪk lə-cy·clotron

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1. cyclotronnoun

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

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1. cyclotronnoun

   a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.

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1. cyclotronnoun

   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.

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1. Cyclotron

   A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932. A cyclotron accelerates charged particles outwards from the center of a flat cylindrical vacuum chamber along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated by a rapidly varying electric field. Lawrence was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for this invention.The cyclotron was the first "cyclical" accelerator. The primary accelerators before the development of the cyclotron were electrostatic accelerators, such as the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator and Van de Graaff generator. In these accelerators, particles would cross an accelerating electric field only once. Thus, the energy gained by the particles was limited by the maximum electrical potential that could be achieved across the accelerating region. This potential was in turn limited by electrostatic breakdown to a few million volts. In a cyclotron, by contrast, the particles encounter the accelerating region many times by following a spiral path, so the output energy can be many times the energy gained in a single accelerating step.Cyclotrons were the most powerful particle accelerator technology until the 1950s, when they were superseded by the synchrotron. Despite no longer being the highest-energy accelerator, they are still widely used to produce particle beams for basic research and nuclear medicine. Close to 1500 cyclotrons are used in nuclear medicine worldwide for the production of medical radionuclides. In addition, cyclotrons can be used for particle therapy, where particle beams are directly applied to patients.

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1. cyclotron

   A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator that propels charged particles, such as protons or electrons, in a spiral path at very high speeds in order to study the nature of matter. The acceleration is achieved by oscillating electrical fields between two large electrodes shaped as halves of a cylinder, in the presence of a strong magnetic field. It was invented in the 1930s by Ernest Lawrence and is used in various areas such as medicine, industry and scientific research.

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1. Cyclotron

   A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator in which charged particles accelerate outwards from the center along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated by a rapidly varying electric field.

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   The numerical value of cyclotron in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

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   The numerical value of cyclotron in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cyclotron
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=cyclotron
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cyclotron
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron
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6. ^ Wikidata
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