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mixture

[miks-cher] / ˈmɪks tʃər /


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In the universe's earliest moments, temperatures reached trillions of degrees, creating an intensely hot mixture of quarks and gluons.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

In one of his first lessons, pupils were shown a mixture of real and AI-generated images and asked to spot the fakes.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The couple opened a small clothing store where they sold a mixture of stuff from other vendors, said Min.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Mr. Bond guides readers through ancient depictions of animals, including the gorgeous array of prehistoric cave paintings, with their mixture of dangerous predators and powerful herbivores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Recognizing both science’s limitations and its strengths requires a peculiar mixture of scepticism and confidence; relativists overdo the scepticism and realists overdo the confidence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

During the 1960s, its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment demonstrated that mixtures of molten salts could function as both nuclear fuel and reactor coolant.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

They used methods including mass spectrometry, which can identify and measure unknown substances within complex organic mixtures.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Gold is traditionally recovered either by smelting at very high temperatures or by using corrosive acid mixtures that generate hazardous waste.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

That said, sometimes off-target or incomplete editing happens with base editing, resulting in so-called “mosaics,” which are genetic mixtures of edited and unedited cells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

The shadows, I could see, were mixtures of colors—blue, purple, gray, and perhaps an unlit red that got sifted out at the end of the day to give the night its darkness.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat




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