"varitron" meaning in All languages combined

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        {
          "ref": "1955, Nuclear Science Abstracts - Issues 4344-8020, page 644",
          "text": "The mass of a varitron varies from 100 to 25,000 electron masses.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1963 ·, Martin Caidin, Red Star in Space, page 52",
          "text": "The discovery of the varitron brought the brothers Alikhanov not only immediate fame, but considerable fortune as well in the form of a Stalin Prize First Class accompanied by 200,000 rubles.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, George Paloczi-Horvath, The Facts Rebel: the Future of Russia and the West, page 65",
          "text": "This high official exercised \"self-criticism\" in his own name and that of Soviet science for this \"gross mistake”, and denounced all those who tried to protect the varitron story against experimental evidence.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 215",
          "text": "These first flickering stars were perhaps giving birth in his mind to the thoughts of proton explosions, of developmental phases and cycles, of super-dense matter, of cosmic showers and storms of varitrons, of different theories of cosmogony, including his own, of instruments for recording invisible streams of stellar energy...",
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        "An alleged subatomic particle with variable mass that Armenian physicists claimed to have discovered in the 1940s, but which was subsequently debunked."
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        "(physics) An alleged subatomic particle with variable mass that Armenian physicists claimed to have discovered in the 1940s, but which was subsequently debunked."
      ],
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          "ref": "1955, Nuclear Science Abstracts - Issues 4344-8020, page 644",
          "text": "The mass of a varitron varies from 100 to 25,000 electron masses.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1963 ·, Martin Caidin, Red Star in Space, page 52",
          "text": "The discovery of the varitron brought the brothers Alikhanov not only immediate fame, but considerable fortune as well in the form of a Stalin Prize First Class accompanied by 200,000 rubles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, George Paloczi-Horvath, The Facts Rebel: the Future of Russia and the West, page 65",
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        },
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          "ref": "2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 215",
          "text": "These first flickering stars were perhaps giving birth in his mind to the thoughts of proton explosions, of developmental phases and cycles, of super-dense matter, of cosmic showers and storms of varitrons, of different theories of cosmogony, including his own, of instruments for recording invisible streams of stellar energy...",
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