particle accelerator

noun

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The particle accelerator dates back to the earliest days of nuclear testing, built for the Manhattan Project, but was moved to its current home on the Davis campus in the 1950s. Nina Dietz, Wired News, 27 Sep. 2025 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, AZCentral.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Unlike massive reactors or particle accelerators, this setup could fit on a tabletop. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025 This quark-gluon plasma didn't stick around for long at the beginning of the universe, however, and its existence in particle accelerators is equally short-lived. Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for particle accelerator

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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 16 Oct. 2025.

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