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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 ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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``We just rode a ride called Atom Smasher, which had to do with centrifugal acceleration,'' said Annie Chang, 16, a junior at Burbank High School. Our galaxy abounds with charged particles carrying energies that are thousands to millions of times as high as those that the most powerful atom smashers can muster. But last January, Russian scientists made history: They created the newest element, or smallest unit of matter, in a lab atom smasher. |
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