particle
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More than 200 parameters go into creating the “perfect Pringle,” from the flour’s particle size and the dough’s humidity to the geography where the potatoes were harvested, according to Laenen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
New sensors and live machine data were integrated to create live digital versions of the dough, capturing minute variances in raw materials—like the particle size of the flour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The announcement was part of broader cuts to astronomy, nuclear and particle physics research over the next four years which will also impact on other projects.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Experimental atomic physicists have found that electrical resistance caused by particle collisions appears to have a maximum limit.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
So far as he was concerned, as yet, there might never have been such a thing as a single particle of sorrow on the gay, sweet surface of the dew-glittering world.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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The techniques vary: either seeding rockets are burned to release a plume of particles, or the saline solution is sprayed directly into the cloud for greater precision.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Salt particles -- specifically sodium chloride and potassium chloride -- are most often used" as cloud-seeding agents, said Adnan Yarmohammed, one of the Emirati officials in charge of sharing his country's experience.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
That result showed that the surface of the silver particles themselves becomes the primary reaction site during hydrogen production.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
When the particles enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed, they heat the surrounding air and create brief streaks of light.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The froth of quantum foam, the spontaneous birth and death of particles, might explain the origin of the cosmos.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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