duantn.
/ˈdjuːənt/ Physics.
In an accelerator = dee n. 3; in an electrometer = binant n.
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1930 Science 10 Oct. 376/2 Semicircular hollow plates in a vacuum not unlike duants of an electrometer.
1936 Nature 22 Feb. 316/2 The cyclotron at present has a limited voltage amplification due, in part, to a space charge built up within the duants.
1936 Lawrence & Cooksey in Physical Rev. 50 1131/2 The accelerating electrodes..are called duants, or dees.
1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) 290 Semicircular hollow plates or dees, resembling the duants or binants of an electrometer.
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