How to Use cyclotron in a Sentence

cyclotron

noun

• Ernest Lawrence works on a 37.5-inch cyclotron, a great-granddaddy of the LHC.
  — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
• This is the aesthetic cyclotron Matisse is spinning in these few works.
  — Vulture, 3 May 2022
• Ernest Lawrence, who invited her to study at Berkeley, won a Nobel for inventing the cyclotron.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
• The technology dates to the 1930s, subsumed by the cyclotron and later the synchrotron for some purposes, but still useful for many others.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019
• IsoDAR will take a small cyclotron and use it as a driver to produce lithium-8 that decays, resulting in a very pure source of antielectron neutrinos.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2016
• Like all elements first born in cyclotrons, technetium was radioactive.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
• Still, Lawrence’s cyclotrons allowed element hunters to take trillions of shots, and by 1937 one of his devices had created technetium (element No.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
• During this ongoing crisis, some proposed a solution that involved going back to the beginning: the cyclotron.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2017
• Lederman first made his mark as a young physicist working at Columbia University's spanking-new cyclotron in the 1950s.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2018
• Kamen and Ruben conducted their experiments using a strange-looking machine called a cyclotron.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
• Last year, the cyclotron was replaced by FRIB’s new, more powerful, $730 million linear accelerator.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 13 Apr. 2023
• This triggers a phenomenon called electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves, the researchers said.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 July 2021
• The magnetic field produced by a cyclotron accelerates particles to dizzying speeds.
  — Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• Before the advent of cyclotrons in the late 1930s, Van de Graff generators—which use friction to create static energy—were the most powerful particle accelerators on the planet.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
• Before the advent of cyclotrons in the late 1930s, Van de Graff generators—which use friction to create static energy—were the most powerful particle accelerators on the planet.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
• The team also found that the radiation spikes tended to coincide with periods of turbulent space weather, which promote conditions in which electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves can form.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• Aebersold began his career at the cyclotron in Berkeley’s Radiation Lab, which pioneered the production of radioactive isotopes.
  — Dan Levitt, Time, 21 Jan. 2023
• In a cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a beam of calcium atoms slammed into a plutonium target, producing a pair of element 114 atoms for the second time in human history.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2009
• With multidimensional vision, computing power and the Harvard cyclotron, the Mass General team could increase accuracy and design detailed treatment plans.
  — Keith Epstein, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
• A cyclotron, or particle accelerator, creates protons from hydrogen molecules spun at extremely high speeds.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2017
• Voliva said students came away with experience working on equipment such as an electron cyclotron, which accelerates electrons exponentially.
  — Janice Neumann, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020

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