granule

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These signals get transmitted through the granule cells' axons -- their arm-like extension, known as mossy fibers.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 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

As if every human and every creature and every gas and liquid and speck of dirt and granule of sand and gust of air settled all at once, and all was right in the universe.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez