atom smasher
Britishnoun
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David Sheppard and Avante Brown were canvassing residents for a solar company recently when they stumbled onto the atom smasher.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Potential buyers have balked when they learned the property came with an atom smasher.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
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.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2023
Or, if physicists are lucky, the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, will blast some new particle into plain view when it comes back online next spring after 3 years of upgrades.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2021
If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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