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particle

[pahr-ti-kuhl] / ˈpɑr tɪ kəl /


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The cholesterol-carrying particle is similar to LDL, but it may be more damaging and its levels are largely determined by genetics.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Scientific observations show the haze contains levels of toxic small particle pollution far exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended safe limit.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

The challenge is that ordinary matter can also produce particle interactions.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

Using a sensitive detector in an an underground laboratory in the US, the researchers saw an atom and mystery particle colliding.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Perhaps the universe is just a quantum fluctuation on a grand scale—an enormous singular particle that came into existence out of the ultimate vacuum.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

"At the smallest spatial scales explored in the experiment, the production rate of J/ψ particles is significantly suppressed, with a statistical significance of about three standard deviations."

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

Instead of moving information around a chip with electrical signals, devices could transmit data using photons, the particles that make up light.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Quantum mechanics has been enormously successful at describing atoms, particles, and other microscopic systems.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

"Sulphate aerosols, they are really small particles, but they are bright particles," he says.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Casimir realized that the forbidden particle waves would affect the zero-point energy of the vacuum, since particles are everywhere winking in and out of existence.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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