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In article <4mjsq1$eoo@ds8.scri.fsu.edu>, jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) wrote:

> Copy of e-mailed response:
> 
> bendix@rro.snafu.de (Ralf Roschinski) writes:
> >
> >My 18 year old son, now in the USA and without any
> >access to the internet, asked me to forward this request:
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> >  I would like to get any scientific information any
> >  scientist has about how the knowledge obtained from
> >  experiment with PARTICLE ACCELERATORS has been used
> >  in a technology.
> >                           tnx,  Tilman G. Roschinski
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The answer depends a bit on what you mean by technology, and what
> you mean by accelerator.  For example, fairly small accelerators
> are used to do ion implantation in research related to semiconductor
> manufacture and as a means of studying the wear of new ceramic
> materials (such as pistons for use in a car).  Very large machines
> are used to produce x-rays or positrons to probe the properties
> of materials, while quite compact machines are used to do atom
> scattering to study surface or near-surface properties.  They
> can also be used to do trace element identification, which can
> be helpful in tracking the source of some object or contamination.
> 
> Some of these are direct manufacturing methods, others are used to
> learn about the properties of materials that are then used for
> various purposes, or to analyze how they behave in use.
> 
> The most common direct use of accelerators is in medicine, where
> they *are* the technology.  Uses range from direct treatment to the
> production of radioisotopes for diagnosis or treatment.  There are
> several examples where research developments have been used to
> produce new, more efficient designs for such devices.
> 
> -- 
>  James A. Carr   <jac@scri.fsu.edu>     |  F. Lee Bailey says that  
>     http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~jac/       |  Tallahassee has a very well run  
>  Supercomputer Computations Res. Inst.  |  Federal detention facility, but 
>  Florida State, Tallahassee FL 32306    |  that the food is too fatty.

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Martha.