atom smasher
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He doesn’t like seeing the fallen atom smasher, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
“I was cruising through YouTube and saw some kids getting into the atom smasher and exploring it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
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
He arrived in 2013, 2 years after its flagship atom smasher, the Tevatron, shut down, ceding the 2012 discovery of the famous Higgs boson to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2021
Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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