| 单词 | atom-smashing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasatom-smashing atom-smashing adj. and n. colloquial (a) adj. capable of producing the fission or nuclear rearrangement of atoms; (b) n. the use of an atom smasher. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > particle accelerator > [noun] > action of accelerating atom-smashing1931 acceleration1942 1931 Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald 17 July 9/7 High voltage vacuum tubes that will stand up under ‘atom smashing’ voltages have been built. 1932 Lit. Dig. 28 May 26/1 Atom-smashing has been accomplished before, and it seems to be still only a laboratory wonder. 1960 New Statesman 2 Jan. 8/1 With the aid of their big atom-smashing machines, other Americans manufactured fragments of anti-matter. 2006 Nature 19 Oct. 737/2 A different method honed by the ATHENA atom-smashing collaboration based at CERN in Geneva has produced protonium that lives for a millionth, rather than just a trillionth, of a second. < as lemmas |
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