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Soudan

British  
/ sudɑ̃ /

noun

  1. the French name for the Sudan

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Once the neutrinos reached the Soudan cavern - taking just .0025 seconds to make the 450-mile underground journey - they passed through the extremely sensitive energy detector consisting of two supermodules.

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2016

That will use Fermilab's Main Injector to hurl an intense beam of neutrinos 455 miles through the Earth to the Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota.

From Reuters • Sep. 30, 2011

Dr. Ellis noted that a similar experiment was reported by a collaboration known as Minos in 2007 on neutrinos created at Fermilab in Illinois and beamed through the Earth to the Soudan Mine in Minnesota.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2011

The CoGeNT dark matter detector had its experimental run cut short at 15 months due to a March fire in the Soudan Mine in Minnesota where it resides.

From Scientific American • May 6, 2011

Neither the Indian postage stamps nor ours should suffer from the partial failure of the Soudan supply.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)