Australian Synchrotron:

The Australian Synchotron is situated in Melbourne, Victoria.It has the diameter of 100 metres.

As you can see from the picture above the Australian synchrotron device is very big ( as big as the size of a football field). Scientists use this machine to look at:

• Molecules

• Atoms

• it can make syubstances smoother

• it even look at what our bodies are made of

 

How the Australian Synchrtron is used:

 

Step 1:     A tube is used to create many electrons and then shot    by an electron gun into something called a linear accelerator.

Step 2:    The linear accelerator uses mega voltage electricity to speed up the electrons until they are nearly at the speed of light.

Step 3:    The electrons get transfered into a booster ring, which as you can probably guess speeds up the electrons even more. 

Step 4:    Then the electrons move into a storage ring which is surrounded by arch shaped magnets. The magnets change the direction of the electrons to produce light.

Step 5:    The light shoots out of the ring and enters pipes. At the end of these pipes th scientist examine the electrons.

Step 6:    They then look at the electrons of a computer screen to examine them futher.

 

The Synchrotron can examine many good thimgs such as cancer research, medical applications and even making and designing new materials. Which is used for medicine (cancer research, x-rays, making earlier dection for cancer, researching dieseases).It can be used for manufacturing industries to desgn new features and build them. It is also good for the environmental scientist  to look at different parts of the environment and examine them.