collide
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When dust particles collide and rub together in Martian storms, they build up static electricity.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
The sun’s mass makes it a gravity-powered fusion reactor, but on Earth, scientists need other ways to create plasma—a superheated, electrically charged gas—and confine it to force atoms to collide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
When charged particles from the Sun are guided by Earth's magnetic field towards the poles, they collide with gases high in the atmosphere.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
“One Piece” unfolds in an alternate past where futuristic technology, classic pirate imagery and fantasy collide.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
The present generation of particle accelerators can collide particles at energies of about one hundred GeV, and machines are planned that would raise this to a few thousand GeV.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing collide
Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Introductory
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Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Middle School
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