particle
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The Amaterasu particle was reported at about 240 exa-electron volts, giving one tiny cosmic-ray particle roughly the kinetic energy of a fast-moving tennis ball.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Or the 14 miles of tunnels that were dug for a giant particle accelerator in Texas, only for Congress to pull the plug.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
The paper claimed the first discovery of a Majorana fermion, a theoretical particle central to the tech giant’s quantum computing effort.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
A BCC structure is slightly less densely packed, with particles located at the cube's corners and a single particle at the center of the cube itself.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
He sat desponding on the threshold of the door and gazed bleakly over the dried and hardened fields from which every particle of anything which could be called food or fuel had been plucked.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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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