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calutron

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calutron [ˈkæljʊˌtrɒn]
n
(Physics / Atomic Physics) a device used for the separation of isotopes
[from Cal(ifornia) U(niversity) + -tron]


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Lawrence, the Nobelprize winning scientist whose inventions include the cyclotron and the calutron, the latter of which was critical to the success of the wartime Manhattan Project.
The research focused on compiling all published material on the electromagnetic isotope separation process and the Calutron, a valuable source of isotopes that the Iraqis used for uranium-235 separation.
More significant, neither Russia nor America believed that that any nation would pursue `obsolete' calutron technology in a bomb programme, It was outdated, Second World War stuff, the pundits argued.
 
 
 
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