linear accelerator
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It’s not your local vet that has a $2 million linear accelerator that aims radiation at cancer tumors with pinpoint accuracy.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024
The world’s most powerful ion source, the linear accelerator can fire any nucleus—from hydrogen’s single proton to uranium atoms’ massive core—into targets to produce new, unstable nuclei.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2021
I had to lie down with a linear accelerator, so I got a lot of chances to read.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2019
Interrupting his studies, he spent the period from 1958 to 1961 at a linear accelerator laboratory in Paris.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2018
Merle Tuve, who was still struggling to produce high-energy particles with his obstreperous Tesla coil, saw little practical application for Lawrence’s curved variation on a linear accelerator.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
