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 scheme also requires a linear accelerator with a high repetition rate, to ensure the x-ray beam encounters a fresh bunch of electrons each time it rounds its circuit of mirrors.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 27, 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
Certainly if the theory of heavy neutron bombardment was sound, then the linear accelerator was the right type of machine.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
