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    [Noun]  | "Van de Graaff generator" | \ ˈvan-də-ˌgraf- \


    1: an apparatus for the production of electrical discharges at high voltage commonly consisting of an insulated hollow conducting sphere that accumulates in its interior the charge continuously conveyed from a source of direct current by an endless belt of flexible nonconducting material


    Origin: 1937 ;

     After Robert J. Van de Graaff †1967 American physicist, its inventor;

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