synchrotron
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In this technique, intense synchrotron light strikes a material, boosting its electrons to higher energy and forcing them to escape the material's structure.
From Science Daily
Using multi-scale synchrotron X ray techniques and a high-resolution transmission electron microscope, the researchers observed that reactions inside single-crystal particles do not occur evenly.
From Science Daily
Diamond Light Source is a synchrotron, which fires electrons around a giant ring at nearly the speed of light.
From BBC
Outside of PSI, such advanced methods are available at only a few other synchrotron facilities worldwide.
From Science Daily
Inside this huge machine, which is called a synchrotron, electrons are accelerated to almost the speed of light to produce a powerful X-ray beam that can probe the scroll without damaging it.
From BBC
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