Cyclotron
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The Cyclotron is a multiblock machine that bombards element powders with element boxes to get heavier elements. If not properly cooled it can cause a catastrophic explosion similar to a small nuclear explosion. It is akin to an advanced breeding reactor, but for elements and consumes an extreme amounts of energy. It can be used as a reliable, but expensive method of large-scale advanced material production.
It can also create 
antimatter as a byproduct for certain operations, which makes it the only method of directly producing it until a full-sized Hadron-style particle accelerator is built.
Crafting
The cyclotron is made in the assembly machine with the following recipe:
| Details | Recipe |
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| Cyclotron Duration: 30.0s |
     
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Usage
The compatible elements for boxes (bombardment "projectile" elements) are: 
lithium, 
beryllium, 
carbon, 
copper, and 
plutonium. They are made in the assembly machine by putting one powder of the respective element in. Almost all pure element powders can be used as "targets" for bombardment.
Many of the elements produced have very few uses, usually for 
nitanium production or being an intermediary step for another rare element, such as one of the rare earth elements (usually for desh) or trans-schrabidic ultra heavy elements, notably 
australium.
The cyclotron can store up to 100 MHE and 32,000 mB of water. It is a power-intensive machine, consuming 2 MHE/s in operation.
Antimatter
Antimatter is produced as a byproduct of operation, heavier element boxes produce more antimatter. The cyclotron has 8,000 mB of internal storage for antimatter.
Power Consumption
The cyclotron is the only machine where a speed upgrade does not increase power consumption and where a power saving upgrade does not decrease speed. The following calculator can be used to figure out how much energy the cyclotron consumes every operation with any combination of machine upgrades.
Trivia
- After its rework, the cyclotron has fewer recipes than it did before.
- In reality, a cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator using a spiral-pattern varying electric field. The first known example of a cyclotron was created 1939 by Ernest Lawrence, for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The first sample of synthetically-produced plutonium was synthesized using a cyclotron in 1941.
- The cyclotron appears to have 4 small tanks on its corners, presumably by the way they look: 2 for antimatter storage and 2 for coolant storage.
- Each side has a different symbol on it, see the gallery.
- The side with the "powder" symbol uses a silhouette of the powder texture used as a base for energy powder, nitanium, desh, spark, and thermonuclear ashes instead of the typical powder texture for material powders.
- Placing in thermonuclear ashes, the book of boxcars, a Maskman coin, and a diamond gavel in the respective slots activates an "enchanted" mode with a fancy render.
- It was originally supposed to unlock special recipes, but it never got to that point.
Gallery
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Side with a circle silhouette, a mask man coin. -
Side with a rectangle silhouette, the book of boxcars. -
Side with a gavel silhouette, the diamond gavel.
