granule

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RNA-protein complexes are important for their formation and the mechanisms promoting stress granule formation involve both conventional RNA-protein interactions and interactions that encompass intrinsically disordered regions of proteins.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024

Helles then uses a shredding machine to turn them into small pieces of rubber granule infill that are used sometimes in building projects, in agriculture to make artificial soil and also for artificial turf.

From Reuters • Jul. 17, 2023

For example, any crystal, whether a granule of table salt or a diamond necklace, is just a bunch of atoms arranged in a repeating pattern.

From Scientific American • Mar. 9, 2022

I felt as small as a granule of sand, dwarfed by the natural world.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2018

The women lined their eyes with dark kohl; some painted their lips and nails, and all of them wore black dresses colorfully embroidered with endless stitches, each the size of a sugar granule.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat