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Linear particle accelerator, an Uncommon card
A linear particle accelerator is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high speed by subjecting them to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear beamline.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 48,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Linear particle accelerator quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Linear particle accelerator card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ of a linac depends on the type of particle that is being accelerated: electrons, protons or ions.
Answer
design. The design of a linac depends on the type of particle that is being accelerated: electrons, protons or ions. From the Linear particle accelerator article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ceiling fan. Ceiling fan 79 · Linear particle accelerator 74 · Ginni Rometty 71 · 1,4-Dioxane 67 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The principles for such machines were proposed by Gustav Ising in 1924, while the first machine that worked was constructed by Rolf Widerøe in 1928 at the RWTH Aachen University.
- Linacs have many applications: they generate X-rays and high energy electrons for medicinal purposes in radiation therapy, serve as particle injectors for higher-energy accelerators, and are used directly to achieve the highest kinetic energy for light particles for particle physics.
- The design of a linac depends on the type of particle that is being accelerated: electrons, protons or ions.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Linear particle accelerator article was read about 48,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Linear particle accelerator (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : jjron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
