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• tokomak

Noun

tokamak ‎(plural tokamaks)

1. A toroidal chamber in which a plasma is magnetically confined; used in nuclear fusion research.
   • 2014, Raffi Katchadourian, ‘A star in a bottle’, The New Yorker:

     Slowly, the solenoid—all one thousand tons of it—will be carried to the tokamak and lowered into the center of the vacuum chamber.

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