Example Sentences

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As they process that seawater, excess calcium and carbonate ions are removed from the body and released as solid calcium carbonate pellets called ichthyocarbonates.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

Exporters in Zhangmutou showed AFP a vast range of products their pellets would become, including drones and badminton birdies.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

"Until now, superconductivity in this class of MXenes was limited to pressed pellets of particles and powders, having never been realized in solution-processed films with mechanical flexibility," Gogotsi said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

And those tiny pellets can be stored in a grain silo—one for charged pellets, a second for discharged ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Then, by chance, two or three pellets happened to light on top of each other, and this transformed the behavior of everyone.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas