What is a Synchrotron and what is it good for? (II)

In the last post, the subject question has not be answered. Yes, I wrote a 'to be continue', but it was many days a go. This week I want to answer this question in some deliveries.

Right now, the explained this is a general view of what is a synchrotron. But anything has not been said about what is a synchrotron good for. From the four machine parts explained in the last delivery, the fourth one, the beam line with the x-rays, is the one used for the experiments. That is to say, this is the one who create some results and over this one is where the wonders of this machine can be described. Externally, the synchrotron is the results extracted from theirs beam lines.

A synchrotron is a big machine to play with some wavelengths of light. Including the lengths of the visible light, a synchrotron can generate its special light against the hundred of thousands electronVolts. Iluminating objects with this light is how the experiments in a synchrotron does.

But this is not only the wavelength the parameter with the scientists works. More other parameters came to describe the matter from different points of view with the same light.

The brilliance of this light is the separator between the different generations that exist in this kind on machines.

We will come in deep, but in general lines, the synchrotron light sources are used in physics experimentation, in biology, in microelectronics and micro-mechanics, in pharmaceutical, and even in hairdressing and cosmetics industry.