atom smasher

British  

noun

1. physics the nontechnical name for accelerator

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atom smasher Scientific  

1. See particle accelerator

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Example Sentences

He doesn’t like seeing the fallen atom smasher, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

Published last week in Physical Review Letters, the method should be widely useful, including in making predictions to be tested at the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider.

From Science Magazine

Some Ukrainian physicists are calling for Russia to be expelled from the laboratory, site of three Nobel Prize–winning discoveries and home to the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider.

From Science Magazine