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Particle Accelerator

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Definition

A large and expensive scientific instrument used by physicists to accelerate elementary particles such as protons or electrons to speeds near that of light for the purpose of investigating the fundamental properties of matter sometimes also called an atom smasher since the particles thus accelerated are often directed at targets of atoms which are fragmented by the impact into their more fundamental component particles

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