particle
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Its reported energy ranks it among the most powerful cosmic-ray events ever observed, placing it in the same rare category as the "Oh-My-God particle" recorded in 1991.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
The Amaterasu particle was reported at about 240 exa-electron volts, giving one tiny cosmic-ray particle roughly the kinetic energy of a fast-moving tennis ball.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
The British physicist-turned-computer scientist conceived the web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European particle physics lab in Switzerland.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Or the 14 miles of tunnels that were dug for a giant particle accelerator in Texas, only for Congress to pull the plug.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Well, this new kind of particle was elementary all right, but it was very hard to measure because it didn’t react in any of the usual ways.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing particle
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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Word Generation Science - Introductory Chemistry Concepts
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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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