particle
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Rather than a single type of particle, it could consist of multiple components that behave differently depending on their environment.
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026
Saturday because of harmful levels of particle pollution from windblown dust.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
In a report last year, researchers with the Pacific Institute cited estimates that dust from the Salton Sea accounts for less than 1% of small particle pollution in the region.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave, and this wave nature introduces a limitation.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
You will be aware that the existence of a Rusakov field implies the existence of a related particle, but so far such a particle has eluded us.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing particle
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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