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1940 Physical Rev. 57 490/2 The Cerenkov radiation..does not represent a loss of energy to be added to that calculated with the Bohr theory.

1955 Sci. Amer. Oct. 22/3 A photograph of the swimming-pool reactor showing its uranium fuel load, bathed in the blue glow known as the Cerenkov effect.

1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 964/1 Cerenkov radiation, visible radiation produced when charged particles traverse a medium which increases their initial velocity to a velocity greater than that of light.

1958 Times 29 Oct. 8/6 The Cherenkov effect for which the three Russian physicists have received their award is the emission of light waves by electrons moving at very high speeds.

1959 Times 23 Oct. 17/2 The counters used will be of the kind, known as Cerenkov counters, in which incoming high-energy particles are detected by the flashes of light that they produce when they pass through a tank of water.

1969 Listener 12 June 823/2 The bow wave's equivalent for light is Cerenkov radiation, and it is emitted, by a particle travelling faster than light, in a certain direction, depending on the actual speed of the particle.