English
Pelletron
Registered trademark of the National Electrostatics Corporation (and later the Pelletron Corporation), from pellet + -tron, for the pellets in the charging chain.
Formed from pellet + -tron
Latin pila ‘ball’
Vulgar Latin *pilotta
Old French pelote ‘small ball’
Middle English pelote
English pellet
The story
Registered trademark of the National Electrostatics Corporation (and later the Pelletron Corporation), from pellet + -tron, for the pellets in the charging chain.
Today it means
noun A type of electrostatic particle accelerator that builds a charge of high voltage using a charging chain of short conductive tubes called pellets connected by links made of insulating material, as opposed to using a belt or rectifier stack.
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