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
• Lawrence, who had worked with Japanese scientists to build the first cyclotrons outside the U.S., was the last member of the committee to agree that using the bomb was the only choice, for the possibility of a dud demonstration was too great to risk.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• 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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