How to Use toroidal in a Sentence

toroidal

adjective
  • The team highlighted that RMJs are part of a fusion machine’s toroidal field coils, which confine the plasma.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The toroidal field magnets generate the primary magnetic fields that confine the plasma.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
  • This toroidal rotation—the movement of particles around the tokamak—creates a parallel flow along the magnetic field lines.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This approach gets around certain plasma confinement challenges faced by tokamaks, which arise from variations in magnetic coil density around the toroidal ring.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The tokamak—shortened from toroidal chamber magnetic—uses powerful magnets.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This structure surrounds the superconducting magnet at the center of the fusion machine, which also utilizes toroidal field coils, poloidal field coils, and correction coils.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Demo4 allows engineers to generate and study these fusion-relevant forces across a system coil set, which includes 14 toroidal field magnets and two poloidal field magnets.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Wu Yu, a researcher at the institute, said the complete reactor will eventually use multiple toroidal-field coils working together.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • The sector will now be equipped with its thermal shield and toroidal field coils, with installation in the tokamak assembly pit scheduled for February 2026.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Magnetic system advances The toroidal-field magnet acts as the reactor’s primary magnetic confinement system.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • The central solenoid, tested alongside the toroidal magnet, is responsible for initiating and controlling the plasma current inside the reactor.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • Over the course of four to six months per coil, the team will subject components to full operational electrical currents, which reach 68 kiloamperes (kA) for the toroidal field units and 48 kA for the poloidal field units.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026
  • Scientists revealed that the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes form plasma, which, being electrically charged, can be held in isolation from the walls by a magnetic field inside the toroidal vacuum chamber of the reactor (these sorts of reactors are called tokamaks).
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Institute director Song Yuntao said the toroidal-field coil took six years to complete and now has the highest energy storage capacity of its kind in the world, according to SCMP and Xinhua.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • Power Without Corruption Mission has used a high-quality and ultra-low-noise toroidal transformer for 778CDT’s internal power architecture, which isolates critical pathways.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The team conducted its experiment using the spherical toroidal nuclear fusion experimental device (VEST) at Seoul National University.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025

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