projectiles
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Japan has urged citizens to stockpile food and essentials for the typhoon season, and to secure outdoor furniture that could become deadly projectiles when typhoon winds hit.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
"Our military does not announce all projectiles launched by North Korea," Jang said, citing operational security and the protection of intelligence assets.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Experiments at the LHC, followed by studies at RHIC, detected collective flow when tiny projectiles such as protons, deuterons, and helium-3 nuclei struck much larger gold or lead nuclei.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
With training from Iran and the Lebanese faction Hezbollah, they evolved from a ragtag band of fighters with sandals and Kalashnikovs to a disciplined force fielding missiles and manufacturing its own projectiles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
This was a reasonable view, since they were the only tools needed for Copernican astronomy and for Galileo’s two new sciences, the science of projectiles and the science of load-bearing structures.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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