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Cockcroft-Walton generator
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| Cock·croft-Wal·ton gen·er·a·tor [ kò kroft wáwlt'n jènnə raytər ] (plural Cock·croft-Wal·ton gen·er·a·tors) |
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device for accelerating protons: a high-voltage device for accelerating charged particles, especially protons, using cascaded rectifiers to charge capacitors
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| [Mid-20th century. After Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897-1967), English physicist, and Ernest T. S. Walton] |
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