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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Van de Graaff generator
 
PRONUNCIATION:  vn d grf
NOUN: An electrostatic generator in which an electric charge is either removed from or transferred to a large hollow spherical electrode by a rapidly moving belt, accelerating particles to energies of about ten million electron volts.
ETYMOLOGY:After Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (1901–1967), American physicist.
 
 
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