How to Use synchrotron in a Sentence

synchrotron

noun

• The Germans had a synchrotron-light source, and wanted to build a new and more powerful one.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
• The synchrotron provides very intense X-Rays that can be used to take detailed images of the fossils.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• The synchrotron also revealed a series of sharp teeth hidden in its mouth.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
• Protons from a synchrotron were flung against a target of beryllium atoms.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Next, two or more circular accelerators known as synchrotrons would boost the beams of muons and antimuons to their final energy.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
• Its emission comes from high-speed electrons spiraling in a magnetic field, a process called synchrotron emission.
  — Fox News, 19 Dec. 2019
• Using the synchrotron’s high-energy photons, Seales and his team took micro-CT scans of the papyri at a resolution of eight microns, about the diameter of a red blood cell.
  — Tomas Weber, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• The synchrotron findings build on previous research on Little Foot.
  — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The scientists say that synchrotron technology has nothing to do with nuclear weapons.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
• Researchers often do that by first inspecting new materials and chemicals with high-powered X-rays from a synchrotron.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This is because the jet runs on synchrotron emissions generated when pulsar winds collide with blobs of accreting material closest to the pulsar itself.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Diamond Light Source is the United Kingdom’s national synchrotron.
  — Nicole Daniels, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024