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n. - Accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux.

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  • He hurried away to the shield around the target of the betatron, left open by Erickson.
  • Erickson got up from where he had been fussing over the power leads to their trigger a modified betatron rather than a resonant accelerator.
  • When we heard of the development of the betatron by D. Kerst in the United States and also of a similar development by Gund at the Siemens company,
  • Laboratory, he worked on indirect methods for producing fast particles, working on the linear accelerator and on what was later to become known as the betatron.
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