How to Use synchrotron in a Sentence
synchrotron
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The Germans had a synchrotron-light source, and wanted to build a new and more powerful one.
—Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
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The synchrotron provides very intense X-Rays that can be used to take detailed images of the fossils.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
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The synchrotron also revealed a series of sharp teeth hidden in its mouth.
—Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
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Protons from a synchrotron were flung against a target of beryllium atoms.
—Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
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As researchers continue to peer into the past with the synchrotron, Manning is narrating their progress at his blog.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2012
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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
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Some two dozen Iranian scientists and engineers will train there, and the beamline will be shipped to Iran when its synchrotron is completed.
—Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 31 Oct. 2017
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At a synchrotron facility, Simoes and his colleagues identified features in the animal's brain case, collar bone and wrists that are unique to lizards.
—Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
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Its emission comes from high-speed electrons spiraling in a magnetic field, a process called synchrotron emission.
—Fox News, 19 Dec. 2019
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The synchrotron findings build on previous research on Little Foot.
—NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
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Other light sources like synchrotrons can certainly generate X-rays, but X-ray free-electron lasers have the advantage of creating very bright, very fast X-ray bursts, on the order of femtoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
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The scientists peered into its atomic structure using X-rays in a synchrotron, a large machine that accelerates particles to almost the speed of light.
—John Leicester, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
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The polarized X-rays are produced in a process called synchrotron emission, and the polarization direction from the X-rays can be mapped back to the direction of the magnetic fields at the location where the X-rays were generated.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
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The laboratory did not possess a beam with sufficient energy to track mercury on the plates, so Kozachuk turned to the synchrotron at Cornell University.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
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Oh, and not just any X-rays: For many proteins, the X-rays need to be produced by a massive, stadium-sized circular particle accelerator called a synchrotron.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
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The team was able to analyze the meteorite with the help of electron microscopy and advanced synchrotron techniques, which built maps of the space object’s components, including lonsdaleite, diamond and graphite, according to the study.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 16 Sep. 2022
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The scientists say that synchrotron technology has nothing to do with nuclear weapons.
—Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
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One of the core strengths of the Office of Science and the national lab complex is building and operating user facilities [such as x-ray synchrotrons, neutron sources, and atom smashers] for the broader community.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 June 2018
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Researchers used a synchrotron, a source of extremely high-powered X-rays, to visualize the near-complete skeleton without having to remove it from the surrounding rock and risk damaging its fragile frame.
—Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2013
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Science News’ Katherine Bourzac reports that the researchers used a particle accelerator known as a synchrotron to scan the plates with high-energy X-ray beams and unearth their chemical makeup.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
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Computer tomography and synchrotron scans indicated the presence of bony tooth sockets and other jaw features in the fossils.
—Leah Froats, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017
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Applications such as synchrotron light sources, free electron lasers, and searches for lightweight dark matter appear with billion electron-volt electrons.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
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That’s why Currie and his colleagues scanned Halszkaraptor using a synchrotron, producing scans that are much higher in resolution.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017
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Diamond Light Source is the United Kingdom’s national synchrotron.
—Nicole Daniels, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
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One of the synchrotron's many applications is to test the optics in cameras intended for highly specialized uses, such as NASA's program for monitoring solar radiation.
—Brian Alexander, WIRED, 1 June 2001
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In this technique, a solution of proteins is turned into a crystal, itself a difficult and time-consuming process, and then this crystal is bombarded with X-rays, often from a large circular particle accelerator called a synchrotron.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
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The message was encoded by mechanically interposing or not interposing a three-inch block of brass in the muon beam every time a 12-billion-electron-volt synchrotron at the Argonne National Laboratory emitted a short burst of particles.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
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Unlike conventional methods, the synchrotron can detect miniscule differences in fossilized bone density even in the outermost layers—essential in figuring out whether flight was possible.
—Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 13 Mar. 2018
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As Ryan F. Mandlebaum reports for Gizmodo, scientists recently turned to a synchrotron particle-accelerator for help discerning every morsel of data locked inside the prehistoric poop.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
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An opportunity to test this hypothesis arises from coprolites to some extent extruded from an immature cockroach preserved in the amber of Lebanon, studied using synchrotron X-ray microtomography.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2013
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