particle accelerator

noun

Examples of particle accelerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yet generations of ever more sensitive experiments meant to find these particles have come up empty, and particle accelerators have also seen no sign of them. Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2024 Everything Ongoing Efforts to Prove the Higgs Boson Beginning in the late 1980’s physicists started developing plans to build a particle accelerator capable of detecting the Higgs boson. Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024 Today, 23 nations participate in CERN, the international physics laboratory that operates the world’s most advanced particle accelerator. Paul Scharre, TIME, 14 Sep. 2024 In 2008: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for particle accelerator 

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First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of particle accelerator was in 1945

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“Particle accelerator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/particle%20accelerator. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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