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The Large Hadron Collider - ‘a collider of large hadrons’, or ‘a hadron collider that is large’?
Comment by Baloroth at 20/07/2022 at 15:32 UTC
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The latter (a hadron collider that is large). It (usually) collides protons, which are standard-sized hadrons, and have been collided by colliders before. It does sometimes collide heavy ions, but those aren't hadrons, and aren't its main purpose.