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atom smasher: see particle accelerator particle accelerator, apparatus used in nuclear physics to produce beams of energetic charged particles and to direct them against various targets. Such machines, popularly called atom smashers, are needed to observe objects as small as the atomic nucleus in studies
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atom smasher [′ad·əm ‚smash·ər]

(nucleonics)

particle accelerator

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