bevatron
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- noun
- /ˈbɛvəˌtrɒn/
- Specialized
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bevatron
- During its operation, the Bevatron served as a vital tool for experiments that required high-energy collisions of protons.
Examples
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Three trees with no branches at all remain near the Bevatron site; it looks awful.
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The Bevatron was instrumental in the field of particle physics, allowing scientists to accelerate protons to energies exceeding several billion electron volts.
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Researchers at the Bevatron successfully accelerated protons, paving the way for the discovery of new subatomic particles.
Synonyms
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A machine that makes particles move faster for scientific study
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A machine that makes tiny charged particles move faster for science or medicine
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A machine that makes small charged particles move very fast using magnets and electric fields
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A large machine that makes tiny particles move very fast to study materials
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A large machine scientists use to make tiny particles move very fast and hit each other
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A machine that makes protons move very fast to hit other particles
A machine that makes charged particles go almost as fast as light by changing the frequency of electric pulses
A machine that makes protons travel very fast around a ring
A large machine that speeds up protons for physics research
Surface Forms
Morphology
bevatron = BeV (opaque) = bev + atron
Formed from the technical abbreviation 'BeV' (billion electron volts) plus the device-forming suffix '-atron', a formation that is specific to scientific naming and not transparent to general learners.
Etymology
Bevatron is made from BeV (an old name meaning 'billion electron volts', a unit of energy) and the ending -tron, which you see in machine names like electron and cyclotron. So a bevatron is literally a machine for reaching 'BeV' energies — a particle accelerator that pushes protons to very high energy.