neutron gun

noun

1. physics a device used for producing a beam of fast neutrons

Example Sentences

If you invented a neutron gun which could kill through tungsten walls without injuring anything within, a system of accelerating a ship that didn't affect the inhabitants of that ship, and a means of exceeding the speed of light, all within a few months of each other, would you become a pirate?

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Devin's been the biggest help—he did most of the work on that neutron gun really—" "After," McLaurin interrupted, "you told him how." "—but we're pretty well stuck now, it seems.

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That ship that attacked us, attacked with a neutron gun, a gun that shot neutrons through the hull of our ship as easily as protons pass through open space.

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They gave me just ten millions, and that only because you demonstrated you could shoot every living thing out of the latest IP cruiser with that neutron gun of yours.

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Hopefully, the 39 probed with her neutron gun.

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