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particle

[pahr-ti-kuhl] / ˈpɑr tɪ kəl /


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Once it forms, each subsequent stable stage requires fewer additional building blocks, allowing the particle to grow more quickly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

To overcome this limitation, the Oxford researchers studied an engineered virus-like particle composed of 60 protein units.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Rather than experiencing a conventional magnetic force along its path, the particle would undergo a change in its quantum phase.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Belgian particle physicist helped build an observatory deep in the Antarctic ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Just as a guitar string of a given size is not capable of playing every possible note—some waves are “forbidden” from appearing on the string—some particle waves are forbidden from being inside a box.

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

“For the most challenging cases — small particles, bad specimens — the laser produces a very considerable advantage,” Müller said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Known as the Carrington Event, the powerful solar storm involved a massive solar flare and a coronal mass ejection, an enormous eruption of charged particles and magnetic fields from the Sun.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

By extending the calculations from individual particles to the much larger boulders found on Bennu, they were able to reproduce the low thermal inertia observed by the spacecraft.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Known as active galactic nuclei, these bright and powerful galactic cores can launch jets of particles and enormous outbursts that influence conditions across their host galaxies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

So classical atomism, as revised and reconstructed in the seventeenth century by Gassendi, Descartes and others, explained nature in terms of interacting particles.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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