BEVATRON

bevatron

(noun) a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bevatron (plural bevatrons)

A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.

Source: Wiktionary



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24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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