Glossary
 

Synchrotron:  An accelerator in which charged particles are accelerated around a fixed circular path by an electric field and held to the path by an increasing magnetic field.       
 

Synchrotron radiation: Electromagnetic radiation emitted by high-energy particles when accelerated to relativistic speeds in a magnetic field.

Light:
  Electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.

Radiation:  Emission and propagation and emission of energy in the form of rays or waves.

Photons:
The quantum of electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime.

Quantum: A physical quantity that can exist independently, especially a discrete quantity of electromagnetic radiation.

Electromagnetic spectrum:  The entire range of radiation extending in frequency from approximately 1023 hertz to zero hertz or, in corresponding wavelengths, from 10-13 centimetre to infinity and including, in order of decreasing frequency, cosmic-ray photons, gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet radiation, visible light, infrared radiation, microwaves, and radio waves.

Hertz: 
One hertz of frequency equal to one cycle per second.

Wavelength:
  The distance between one peak or crest of a wave of light, heat, or other energy and the next corresponding peak or crest.

Microscope:
  An optical instrument that uses a lens or a combination of lenses to produce magnified images of small objects, especially of objects too small to be seen by the unaided eye.

Dipole:  A pair of electric charges or magnetic poles, of equal magnitude but of opposite sign or polarity, separated by a small distance.

Electron: A stable subatomic particle in the lepton family having a rest mass of 9.1066×10-28 grams and a unit negative electric charge of approximately 1.602× 10-19 coulombs.

X-rays: A relatively high-energy photon having a wavelength in the approximate range from 0.01 to 10 nanometres. Or a stream of such photons, used for their penetrating power in radiography, radiology, radiotherapy, and scientific research.

Infrared: 
Invisible radiation of wavelengths from about 750 nanometres, just longer than red in the visible spectrum, to 1 millimetre, on the border of the microwave region.

Microwave:
A high-frequency electromagnetic wave, one millimetre to one meter in wavelength, intermediate between infrared and short-wave radio wavelengths.

Ultraviolet rays: Invisible radiations of wavelengths from about 4 nanometres, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometres, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Electromagnetism:  Magnetism produced by electric charge in motion.

Magnetism:
The phenomenon exhibited by a magnetic field.
 

Magnetic: Having the properties of a magnet.

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