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Only charged particles can be accelerated in a linear accelerator. Is this true or false?

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A linear accelerator is a particle accelerator that accelerates particles by subjecting them to electric potentials - oscillating electric potentials. If the particles where not charged, these potentials would do nothing to them. Therefore, a linear accelerator only can accelerate subatomic charged particles.

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