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Cockcroft and Walton accelerator — noun a high voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube • Syn: ↑Cockcroft Walton accelerator, ↑Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier, ↑Cockcroft Walton voltage… … Useful english dictionary
Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier — noun a high voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube • Syn: ↑Cockcroft and Walton accelerator, ↑Cockcroft Walton accelerator, ↑Cockcroft and Walton voltage… … Useful english dictionary
Voltage multiplier — Villard cascade voltage multiplier. A voltage multiplier is an electrical circuit that converts AC electrical power from a lower voltage to a higher DC voltage, typically by means of a network of capacitors and diodes. Voltage multipliers can be… … Wikipedia
Cockcroft-Walton accelerator — noun a high voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube • Syn: ↑Cockcroft and Walton accelerator, ↑Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier, ↑Cockcroft Walton… … Useful english dictionary
Cockcroft–Walton generator — This Cockcroft–Walton voltage multiplier was part of one of the early particle accelerators responsible for development of the atomic bomb. Built in 1937 by Philips of Eindhoven it is now in the National Science Museum in London, England. The… … Wikipedia
Cockcroft , Sir John Douglas — (1897–1967) British physicist Cockcroft, who was born at Todmorden in northern England, entered Manchester University in 1914 to study mathematics, but left the following year to join the army. After World War I he was apprenticed to the… … Scientists
Cockcroft-Walton generator — The Cockcroft Walton (CW) generator, or multiplier, was named after the two men who in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator, performing the first artificial nuclear disintegration in history. John Douglas Cockcroft… … Wikipedia
Voltage doubler — A voltage doubler is an electronic circuit which charges capacitors from the input voltage and switches these charges in such a way that, in the ideal case, exactly twice the voltage is produced at the output as at its input. The simplest of… … Wikipedia
atom smasher — noun a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles • Syn: ↑accelerator, ↑particle accelerator • Hypernyms: ↑scientific instrument • Hyponyms: ↑betatron, ↑induct … Useful english dictionary
particle accelerator — noun a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles • Syn: ↑accelerator, ↑atom smasher • Hypernyms: ↑scientific instrument • Hyponyms: ↑betatron, ↑induction accelerator … Useful english dictionary
