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particle

[pahr-ti-kuhl] / ˈpɑr tɪ kəl /


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In a report last year, researchers with the Pacific Institute cited estimates that dust from the Salton Sea accounts for less than 1% of small particle pollution in the region.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The particle carried about 100,000 times more energy than anything ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

TAE creates something like a smoke ring of plasma and aims high-powered neutral particle beams at it to heat and stabilize it, spinning the plasma, like keeping a toy top in motion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Several of the chapters, about particle accelerators and fusion reactors, take readers on cursory tours of facilities that have at best a tangential connection to space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston