How to Use cyclotron in a Sentence

cyclotron

noun
  • This is the aesthetic cyclotron Matisse is spinning in these few works.
    — Vulture, 3 May 2022
  • Like all elements first born in cyclotrons, technetium was radioactive.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Ernest Lawrence, who invited her to study at Berkeley, won a Nobel for inventing the cyclotron.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The magnetic field produced by a cyclotron accelerates particles to dizzying speeds.
    — Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Kamen and Ruben conducted their experiments using a strange-looking machine called a cyclotron.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Heisenberg was particularly envious of the American cyclotrons that would be used as one of the means to enrich uranium.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The technology dates to the 1930s, subsumed by the cyclotron and later the synchrotron for some purposes, but still useful for many others.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019
  • IsoDAR will take a small cyclotron and use it as a driver to produce lithium-8 that decays, resulting in a very pure source of antielectron neutrinos.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2016
  • The Japanese had cyclotrons but no nuclear lobby driven by frightened, concerned, or ambitious scientists.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike Heisenberg or, for that matter, any physicist in Germany, Nishina was in possession of the most valuable equipment for his research—the cyclotron.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The team also found that the radiation spikes tended to coincide with periods of turbulent space weather, which promote conditions in which electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves can form.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Feynman was a graduate student there at the time and threw himself into the debate with gusto, even devising an experiment in the cyclotron laboratory to test his hypothesis.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Still, Lawrence’s cyclotrons allowed element hunters to take trillions of shots, and by 1937 one of his devices had created technetium (element No.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
  • This triggers a phenomenon called electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves, the researchers said.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 July 2021
  • Voliva said students came away with experience working on equipment such as an electron cyclotron, which accelerates electrons exponentially.
    — Janice Neumann, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Lederman first made his mark as a young physicist working at Columbia University's spanking-new cyclotron in the 1950s.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2018
  • Last year, the cyclotron was replaced by FRIB’s new, more powerful, $730 million linear accelerator.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Aebersold began his career at the cyclotron in Berkeley’s Radiation Lab, which pioneered the production of radioactive isotopes.
    — Dan Levitt, Time, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Proton therapy is a noninvasive radiation treatment in which hydrogen ions are accelerated through a cyclotron to form a high-energy beam used to destroy DNA in tumors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2025
  • With multidimensional vision, computing power and the Harvard cyclotron, the Mass General team could increase accuracy and design detailed treatment plans.
    — Keith Epstein, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
  • Before the advent of cyclotrons in the late 1930s, Van de Graff generators—which use friction to create static energy—were the most powerful particle accelerators on the planet.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
  • In a cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a beam of calcium atoms slammed into a plutonium target, producing a pair of element 114 atoms for the second time in human history.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2009

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