-tron, -tronic (Greek: a suffix; device, instrument; more generally, used in the names of any kind of chamber or apparatus used in experiments).A possible allusion to the Greek instrumental suffix, as in árotron, "plow" as spelled in the U.S. or "plough", as spelled by the British; from the Greek stem aroun, "to plow".betatron:
biotron:
cosmotron:
cryotron:
cyclotron:
dynatron:
electron:
electronic:
ignitron:
isotron:
klystron:
magnetron:
megatron:
phanatron:
phanotron:
phantastron (fantastic + tron):
phytotron:
synchrotron:
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