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Noun: Cockcroft and Walton accelerator
  1. A high-voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube
    - Cockcroft-Walton accelerator, Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier, Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier

Type of: accelerator, atom smasher, particle accelerator

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