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nucleus

[noo-klee-uhs, nyoo-] / ˈnu kli əs, ˈnju- /


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It could also improve the visibility of structures inside cells, such as the nucleus and mitochondria.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells contain a nucleus, a specialized compartment that houses most of their genetic material.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

On the rare occasions when a neutrino strikes an atomic nucleus, it produces fast-moving charged particles.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

They have much more complicated cells featuring a nucleus and other specialized structures such as organelles which perform specific jobs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

For an atom, uranium 235 has a pretty enormous nucleus, packed with 92 protons and 143 neutrons.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Scientists are continuing to analyze data from collisions involving lighter atomic nuclei, searching for additional evidence of how quark–gluon plasma forms and behaves.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

What once appeared to require collisions between massive nuclei can now be investigated through much smaller systems, giving researchers new opportunities to explore the behavior of matter under extraordinary conditions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

By reducing the collision energy and using smaller nuclei, physicists can approach the threshold at which the distinctive signatures of primordial matter disappear.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

After establishing these signatures in collisions involving large nuclei, physicists began finding similar collective motion in much smaller systems.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

With their apparatus, a refinement of the Marsden-Geiger box of 1911, they found that ordinary air produced especially frequent scintillations resembling those of hydrogen nuclei, or protons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

She saw him start a dozen nucleuses of fires; saw them advance till they halted at the edge of the burned ground, beyond the wagon, so that it stood safe in a vast black island.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

Hall, Price, and Kelsey headed in with straggling wagons to form the nucleuses of their columns; but the morning wore on and the Missourians, now under Woodhull, had not yet broken park.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

"Gee whiz, nucleuses aren't so easy to be, that's one thing," Pee-wee muttered to himself as he bent his aimless way in the direction of Barrel Alley.

From Pee-Wee Harris Adrift by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

"So far I have done nothing but nucleuses," said Olive, as they sat down.

From The Captain's Toll-Gate by Frank Richard Stockton


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