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Cosmotron

(ˈkɒzməˌtrɒn) n (Atomic Physics) a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)[C20: from cosm(ic ray) + -tron]

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cosmotron - a large proton synchrotron; uses frequency modulation of an electric field to accelerate protonssynchrotron - cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency

cosmotron

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cosmotron:

see particle acceleratorparticle accelerator,
apparatus used in nuclear physics to produce beams of energetic charged particles and to direct them against various targets. Such machines, popularly called atom smashers, are needed to observe objects as small as the atomic nucleus in studies of its
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cosmotron

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noun a large proton synchrotron

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