How to Use atom smasher in a Sentence

atom smasher

noun
  • The agency funds atom smashers, surveys of the universe, and the sequencing of thousands of genomes.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The Stanford Linear Accelerator was one of the world’s largest atom smashers.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
  • The Large Hadron Collider fired up, leading to the speculation that the world’s biggest atom smasher could create a black hole that would swallow Earth.
    Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • In Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, broke a world record for proton acceleration.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Separately, at the world's largest atom smasher at CERN, physicists have been crashing protons against each other there to see what happens after.
    Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Separately, at the world’s largest atom smasher at CERN, physicists have been crashing protons against each other there to see what happens after.
    NBC News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Separately, at the world's largest atom smasher at CERN, physicists have been crashing protons against each other there to see what happens after.
    Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • PeV accelerations—100 times more energetic than collisions at the world’s most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider.
    Ling Xin, Science | AAAS, 18 May 2021
  • Such particles might someday be blasted into existence at an atom smasher.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2021
  • One of the core strengths of the Office of Science and the national lab complex is building and operating user facilities [such as x-ray synchrotrons, neutron sources, and atom smashers] for the broader community.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 June 2018
  • Eighty-three years after the cyclotron was first patented, science is taking a fresh look at the atom smasher as a potential producer of the radioactive isotope that helps doctors diagnose millions of patients across the world every year.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Advances in technology eventually rendered Carnegie’s atom smasher obsolete.
    Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019

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