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A particle accelerator in which charged particles follow expanding curved paths under magnetic and alternating electric fields.
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- cyclotron beam
- cyclotron chamber
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The cyclotron produced a beam for the experiment.
They sealed the cyclotron chamber before startup.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular cyclotron; plural cyclotrons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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