D-shaped tokamak

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• tokamak — /ˈtoʊkəmæk/ (say tohkuhmak) noun an experimental device used in plasma physics consisting of a toroidal (doughnut shaped) vacuum chamber and magnetic fields, used for heating gases to temperatures above one million degrees for the purpose of… …  

• tokamak — noun a doughnut shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle • Hypernyms: ↑chamber • Part Meronyms: ↑magnetic bottle …   Useful english dictionary

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