Examples of magnetron in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Understandably curious just what the heck had happened, Spencer ran another test with the magnetron. — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2021 Understandably curious just what the heck had happened, Spencer ran another test with the magnetron. — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2021 According to Michalak, at the time Spencer was trying to improve the power level of the magnetron tubes to be used in radar sets. — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2021 That power is transmitted through the magnetron at a high frequency, which then allows water, fats and sugars to absorb it and heat up. — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019 Before the Second World War, magnetron tubes were clunky and expensive to build, but the Allied Forces’ strategic reliance on radar required them by the thousands. — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2021 From there, the magnetron converts electricity from your home into some pretty intense radio waves. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020 The chip that drives the microwave blindly starts and stops the magnetron to heat expired Kung Pao chicken. — Frank O’brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020 Ionized by sunlight, the barium would create a ring of moving plasma that emits radio waves: essentially a space version of a magnetron, the gadget used in microwave ovens. — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 26 Dec. 2019 See More

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