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What are the Cosmic rays and how to generate them ?

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12 Years agoGrade Upto college level
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer12 Years ago

Hello,

Cosmic ray is the term given to high energy radiation which strikes the Earth from space. Some of them have ultrahigh energies in the range 100 - 1000 TeV. SInce this much energy is not possible to be obtained in laboratories, you cannot generate them using the appartus available with the mankind at present.

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