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English: Cutaway drawing of the Westinghouse Atom Smasher, a Van de Graaff generator built in 1937 at the Westinghouse Corporation research center at Forest Hills, Pennsylvania, USA. It consists of a Van de Graaff generator which generates 5 million volts (MV) on its dome shaped electrode, which is used to accelerate charged subatomic particles through an evacuated tube parallel to the generator's charge carrying belt. Since open-air Van de Graaff machines are limited to about 1 MV by leakage of current from its electrode by arcs and corona discharge, the machine is enclosed in an onion-shaped air tank pressurized to a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch, which allows it to reach a voltage of 5 MV. |
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| Source | Retrieved April 11, 2015 from "Huge generator to smash atoms" in Popular Science, Popular Science Publishing Co., New York, Vol. 131, No. 1, July 1937, p. 35 on Google Books |
| Author | Unknown author |
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