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particle

[pahr-ti-kuhl] / ˈpɑr tɪ kəl /


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Pluvicto carries a beta particle that travels for a longer range but is less lethal, while the new therapy uses an alpha particle that is more lethal but travels shorter distances, the analyst says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Amgen and Eli Lilly are also developing drugs targeting the particle.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The particle is a variant of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Crucially, measurements of this decay let us study how one type of fundamental particle, a beauty quark, can transform into another, the strange quark.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

At the heart of it was Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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