cyclotron
cyclotron
Definition
☆ cy·clo·tron (sī′klō trän′, -klə-)
noun
a circular particle accelerator for positively charged ions (usually protons, deuterons, and alpha particles), normally used to initiate nuclear transformations upon collision with a suitable target: through the combined action of a constant magnetic field with an oscillating electrostatic field across two -shaped, hollow electrodes, it causes a particle to move in an increasingly large spiral path inside the electrodes with increasing kinetic energy and velocity
cyclotron
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- medical: Patients come from across the globe to have tumors treated by the UK ' s only medical cyclotron.
Modifies a noun
- resonance: Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry ( FT-ICR-MS ) was used as a major tool for structure analysis.
- spectrometry: Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry ( FT-ICR-MS ) was used as a major tool for structure analysis.
- frequency: The ratio of the cyclotron frequencies determines their relative masses.
- mass: Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry ( FT-ICR-MS ) was used as a major tool for structure analysis.
- wave: Ion cyclotron waves are able to heat the corona from 50000 to above 1 million degrees by directly heating alpha particles only.
- motion: We show that this behavior arises from drift of the guiding center of cyclotron motion along contours of an effective potential.
Noun used with modifier
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