particle
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Scientific observations show the haze contains levels of toxic small particle pollution far exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended safe limit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
As particle accelerators became more powerful and detectors grew increasingly sensitive, researchers gained access to subtler physical processes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Lead researcher physicist Dr Sam Eriksen said it could be "the first step in understanding dark matter as a particle", but further research could also reveal that the particle is not related to dark matter.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
With planets this dim, the telescope may receive only a single particle of light once every minute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
His greatest breakthrough came because he was prepared to spend immensely tedious hours sitting at a screen counting alpha particle scintillations, as they were known–the sort of work that would normally have been farmed out.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Even among those who did, many blamed the epidemic on miasma—conditions attributed to odors, stagnant water or unseen particles in the atmosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“There was a stillness, a deafening silence. It was the sensation of being a kid in a room where there’s only one light source and you can see the floating particles in the air.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
That is more than 100 times the World Health Organization's recommended safe limit for airborne particles so small they can enter deep into the lungs and even the bloodstream, with potentially dire consequences for health.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Physicists have spent decades organizing the growing collection of subatomic particles, yet some discoveries continue to resist easy classification.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Like the particles of light Koffi had seen before, she felt the nameless song’s movement in the air, notes of a song she could not name but knew.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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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