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particle

[pahr-ti-kuhl] / ˈpɑr tɪ kəl /


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Yet the glass fiber filters used to trap airborne particles also preserved traces of DNA from pollen, spores, and other microscopic biological material.

From Science Daily

People are reporting that the fog has a strange consistency and that it’s nefariously littered with black and white particles that don’t seem normal.

From Los Angeles Times

This layer is also rich in platinum, iridium, metallic melt particles, shocked quartz, and fused minerals known as meltglass.

From Science Daily

After ten years of gathering and studying data, an international team of physicists that included researchers from Rutgers has overturned a long-standing idea about a mysterious type of particle.

From Science Daily

They discovered that the TCR behaves like a jack-in-the-box, staying compact until it encounters an antigen or another suspicious particle, at which point it rapidly opens.

From Science Daily