cyclotron

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Like all elements first born in cyclotrons, technetium was radioactive.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2019

Cathy Alter, a frequent contributor to the Magazine, last wrote about cyclotrons.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2016

When Japan surrendered, the occupying U.S. forces discovered just five cyclotrons, devices that speed up atoms in order to separate isotopes that can then be used for a bomb.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2015

Three research centres - Berkeley in California, Dubna in Russia and Darmstadt in Germany - raced to see just how many more synthetic elements could be created using the descendants of those early cyclotrons.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2014

If the cyclotron development had been, let us say, a year earlier, I repeat, there is every reason to believe that some of these discoveries referred to would have been made using cyclotrons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik