atom smasher

noun

: accelerator sense d

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Once the home of the world’s biggest atom smasher, Fermilab boasts the discoveries of the massive top and bottom quarks and the tau neutrino. — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 14 Aug. 2024 The current highest energy atom smasher, the 27-kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, fires protons into protons. — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024 From quantum theory to atom smashers The brothers were both working as physicists when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. — Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024 In such a universe, a black hole appearing inside an atom smasher becomes much more feasible, potentially revealing insights into the very nature of gravity. — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for atom smasher

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1930, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of atom smasher was in 1930

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atom smasher

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: accelerator sense 3
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