particle accelerator

noun

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Fortunately, the cosmos offers natural particle accelerators in the form of the extreme environments around supermassive black holes. Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 June 2025 Here on Earth Prime, nine years after a weasel met a particle accelerator and everything started to get weird, the GTI shines as almost the perfect blend of performance and everyday practicality while keeping the footprint small and the sticker price affordable. ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2025 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 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 10 Jun. 2025.

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