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Soudan

British  
/ sudɑ̃ /

noun

  1. the French name for the Sudan

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

But seldom in history has there been as fierce personal encounters as in the Soudan, or as unusual methods of warfare.

From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Richard Harding Davis

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