magnetic bottle
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8.4
- noun
- Specialized
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botella magnética
- The counselor told her that they'd made something up for her: a special visor similar to one that had been developed for cold-fusion technicians, the ones who worked with the magnetic bottles that contained the reaction.
And so maybe you can contain it in a magnetic bottle.
- And so maybe you can contain it in a magnetic bottle.
Examples
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I flicked another button on the beeper, releasing a minute trace of the quantum foam from its magnetic bottle.
Fiction book (1997) -
They spin around field lines so we can use magnetic bottles to trap our fusion fuels.
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The physicists carefully monitored the parameters of the magnetic bottle to ensure the plasma remained stable during the experiment.
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For fusion research, scientists utilize a magnetic bottle to effectively contain high-energy plasma without any physical walls.
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By adjusting the field strength, the team managed to enhance the performance of their magnetic bottle for better plasma confinement.
Synonyms
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9.9
A ring shaped machine that heats hot gas with magnets for fusion research
A machine that uses magnets to hold hot charged gas for fusion experiments
Surface Forms
Morphology
magnetic + bottle
The meaning is compositionally derivable from 'magnetic' (relating to magnetism) + 'bottle' (a container): a container-like device that uses magnetism to hold something. Although the term is technical (referring specifically to plasma confinement), a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the basic idea of a container formed or operated by magnetic forces.
Etymology
The compound noun magnetic bottle imagines a bottle that holds something but with magnetic fields instead of glass. Scientists call a machine a magnetic bottle because it uses magnets to 'contain' the very hot gas called plasma so it cannot escape.