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Large Hadron Collider

Syllabification: (Large Had·ron Col·lid·er)
(abbrev.: LHC)
Definition of Large Hadron Collider
  • a large particle accelerator located at the CERN laboratory on the French-Swiss border near Geneva. Operation of the collider began in 2008, and an initial aim was to provide evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson.

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