atom smasher

noun

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Once the home of the world’s biggest atom smasher, Fermilab boasts the discoveries of the massive top and bottom quarks and the tau neutrino. Byadrian Cho, science.org, 14 Aug. 2024 Aman Tripathi 2 months ago 0 Culture CERN president claims China can build world’s biggest atom smasher CERN president backs China’s plan for biggest collider, praising China’s science progress, amid funding and need debate. Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2024 The current highest energy atom smasher, the 27-kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, fires protons into protons. Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024 From quantum theory to atom smashers The brothers were both working as physicists when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for atom smasher 

Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of atom smasher was in 1930

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“Atom smasher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atom%20smasher. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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