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bevatron

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn/Part of speech nounSorted abenortvStarts with BEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts

Word origin

From BeV + -a- + -tron.

Used in a sentence

  • Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.
  • By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.
  • In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.

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