particle accelerator

noun

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Instead of alchemy, scientists used the world’s largest particle accelerator to crash beams of lead ions into each other at near-light speed. George Petras, USA Today, 17 May 2025 Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator — have observed a real-life transmutation of lead into gold. Victoria Corless, Space.com, 13 May 2025 Fulfilling the dream of medieval alchemists, physicists have observed the transmutation of lead into gold—through nuclear physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025 To mimic conditions on the moon, the researchers built a custom apparatus that included a vacuum chamber, where the samples were placed, and a tiny particle accelerator, which the scientists used to bombard the samples with hydrogen ions for several days. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025 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 28 May. 2025.

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