bevatrons
bevatrons is the plural of bevatron.
Meaning of bevatron
Noun
bevatron (plural bevatrons)
- A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
- Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.1948 January, “Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?”, in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1
Questions about bevatrons
- What is bevatrons the plural of?
- Bevatrons is the plural of bevatron.
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