pellet

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ICF uses powerful lasers or electrical charges to squeeze tiny fuel pellets rapidly until their atoms fuse—like a controlled, miniature version of the process that powers the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal

Uranium hexafluoride is an intermediate product between uranium ore and nuclear fuel pellets.

From Barron's

When he’d opened the door, the ground had been covered in golf-ball-size ice pellets for as far as he could see.

From Literature

One woman was detained after she was shot with a pellet gun and went to a hospital in Tehran for treatment, a close friend said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once she had taken a BB pellet out of the wing of a hawk.

From Literature