atom smasher
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The one-time industrial powerhouse shut the atom smasher by the late 1950s; it sold the surrounding 10 acres in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Rachel Hirleman, whose house backs up to the atom smasher, said she’d like to see the land redeveloped but has enjoyed watching the seasons change around it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Eventually, the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, blasted some of those bosons into fleeting existence, cementing Higgs’s explanation of how fundamental particles get mass.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 10, 2024
And it needed the world’s biggest atom smasher CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024
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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