synchrotron radiation

American  

noun

1. electromagnetic radiation emitted by charged particles as they pass through magnetic fields.

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synchrotron radiation British  

noun

1. electromagnetic radiation emitted in narrow beams tangential to the orbit of very high energy charged particles, such as electrons, spiralling along the lines of force in a strong magnetic field. It occurs in synchrotron accelerators and in many cosmic environments, such as radio galaxies and supernova remnants

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synchrotron radiation Scientific  

1. Electromagnetic radiation emitted by high-energy particles that are moving in a circular path, as in a synchrotron particle accelerator. Energy lost by synchrotron radiation increases rapidly as particles approach the speed of light.

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Etymology

Origin of synchrotron radiation

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Saito and his colleagues, who comprised researchers from Kyoto University, Shimane University, the National Institute for Materials Science, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, uncovered a previously unknown mechanism of stress relaxation in ionic glass, a model system of glass.

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Their research utilized state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation experiments and computer simulations to observe atomic motions in glass on a nanosecond-to-microsecond timescale.

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This innovative PolyU project was a collaboration with researchers from the University of Oxford, the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre of Taiwan and Jiangsu University.

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By X-ray crystallography, using synchrotron radiation, they determined the 3D structure of the enzyme, which had to be crystallized beforehand, with and without 2-oxoglutarate attached to it.

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Synchrotron radiation is also visible in the bubble-like shells in the lower half of the inner cavity.

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