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superconducting super collider  

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  • The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was to have been the world's largest and most expensive particle accelerator. In July 1983, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) approved plans to build the collider. [Source: Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication; Superconducting Super Collider]

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