How to Use synchrotron in a Sentence

synchrotron

noun
  • That’s where the synchrotron came in.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Gill wondered if synchrotrons could see the rings in ancient fossil teeth.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The synchrotron also revealed a series of sharp teeth hidden in its mouth.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Protons from a synchrotron were flung against a target of beryllium atoms.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • They are also used in synchrotrons, one of the key tools at the SLAC labs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The Germans had a synchrotron-light source, and wanted to build a new and more powerful one.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
  • In the 1980s the first dedicated x-ray synchrotrons were built.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 27 June 2024
  • Within a synchrotron, the electrons go around in little bunches.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 27 June 2024
  • The findings show how carbon nanotubes combined with laser light could replicate the workings of a synchrotron on a microchip.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
  • But Budin wanted to see these lipids in action, and something occurred to him during a late session at the synchrotron.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The synchrotron provides very intense X-Rays that can be used to take detailed images of the fossils.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Its emission comes from high-speed electrons spiraling in a magnetic field, a process called synchrotron emission.
    — Fox News, 19 Dec. 2019
  • As researchers continue to peer into the past with the synchrotron, Manning is narrating their progress at his blog.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2012
  • Next, two or more circular accelerators known as synchrotrons would boost the beams of muons and antimuons to their final energy.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The scientists say that synchrotron technology has nothing to do with nuclear weapons.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
  • Gill booked some synchrotron time for Newham and carried on the work initiated by Corfe’s earlier effort.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The synchrotron findings build on previous research on Little Foot.
    — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • To spot the exact moment water turns into exotic ice, scientists used powerful X-ray beams at a synchrotron.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
  • At a synchrotron facility, Simoes and his colleagues identified features in the animal's brain case, collar bone and wrists that are unique to lizards.
    — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
  • Some two dozen Iranian scientists and engineers will train there, and the beamline will be shipped to Iran when its synchrotron is completed.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Applications such as synchrotron light sources, free electron lasers, and searches for lightweight dark matter appear with billion electron-volt electrons.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Computer tomography and synchrotron scans indicated the presence of bony tooth sockets and other jaw features in the fossils.
    — Leah Froats, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017
  • His team used a synchrotron — a machine that produces extremely powerful beams of light by accelerating electrons to very high speeds — to peer inside the rock without breaking it open.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The scientists peered into its atomic structure using X-rays in a synchrotron, a large machine that accelerates particles to almost the speed of light.
    — John Leicester, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This is because the jet runs on synchrotron emissions generated when pulsar winds collide with blobs of accreting material closest to the pulsar itself.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Clements’ team examined the fossil using a synchrotron, a machine that produces extremely powerful beams of light by accelerating electrons to very high speeds.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Thanks to synchrotron imaging — a type of high-intensity X-ray — the team determined the internal undigested food remains in the coprolites.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The scans are made by synchrotron scanners, which are massive particle accelerators that can beam high-power x-rays at the object, revealing its inner layers down to the atomic level.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
  • Within a few years, however, the development of advanced synchrotron X-ray CT scanning allowed a path forward.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2026

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