cosmotron
noun
a proton accelerator.
cosmotron
American
[kos-muh-tron]
/ ˈkɒs məˌtrɒn /
noun
Physics.
Cosmotron
British
/ ˈkɒzməˌtrɒn /
noun
Etymology
Origin of cosmotron
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His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices to its credit, including shopping centers, railroad stations, factories, hospitals, churches, and the cosmotron building at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
From Time Magazine Archive
The 2.3 bev cosmotron, a "doughnut" 70 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. in cross section, needs 2,000 tons of steel for the magnets that keep its protons on circular orbits.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is twice the energy of the second largest accelerator, the cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new machine's principal part, a doughnut-shaped magnet, will be 600 ft. in diameter, ten times the diameter of Brookhaven's 3 billion-volt cosmotron, the largest now in operation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brookhaven settled for a cosmotron rated at 2.5 billion volts, though it received the GAC’s explicit promise that it could come back to the well for bigger machines in the future.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
At the Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he did research, he became friendly with Dr. Cronin during long nights playing bridge while waiting for the lab’s particle accelerator, the Cosmotron, to get running.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2015
This chamber is now in use with the Cosmotron at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2012
Such mighty machines as the Berkeley Bevatron and the Brookhaven Cosmotron are used chiefly to explore the particles of which atoms are built.
From Time Magazine Archive
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