COSMOTRON Definition & Meaning

cosmotron

[ kos-muh-tron ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Physics.

a proton accelerator.

Cosmotron

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noun

a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of cosmotron¹

First recorded in 1945–50; cosmo- + -tron

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of cosmotron¹

C20: from cosm ( ic ray ) + -tron

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Brookhaven settled for a cosmotron rated at 2.5 billion volts, though it received the GAC’s explicit promise that it could come back to the well for bigger machines in the future.

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