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Modern Van de Graaff accelerators can achieve energies as high as 25 MeV (25 million eV). Finally, they are shot out of the accelerator into nuclear targets. In this instrument, the oscillator (radio-frequency generator) that accelerates the particles around the Ds is tuned; . . .

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