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CERN comparison table

Subject	has location	is an instance of	is a kind of	has definition
high energy physics institution			institution
CERN	near Geneva, Switzerland	high energy physics institution		The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (formerly the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire). Here, the resources of the European member nations are pooled to construct the large particle accelerators needed for high-energy experiments. The major facilities at CERN include the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and the Large Electron-Positron (LEP) collider.

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