How to Use subatomic in a Sentence
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And that might not be a problem as a state on the subatomic scale.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
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Of all the subatomic particles that have any mass at all, the neutrino is the lightest by far.
—Don Lincoln, Forbes, 18 May 2021
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This is despite the fact that subatomic charm quarks are about 1.5 times more massive than the proton, itself.
—Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2022
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The cosmic rays are mostly in the form of neutrons, which are large and heavy (as far as subatomic particles go).
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2020
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First stop: a back-in-time reminder of Ant-Man's powers, and a refresher on the first film's subatomic drama.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 July 2018
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The book plunges on, to the ants on the grass, then smaller and smaller into the invisible world of atoms and subatomic particles.
—New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
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The study of quarks and other subatomic particles came in second.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
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Trillions of the subatomic things pass through your body and the rest of the planet every second, without disturbing any atoms.
—Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
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Positrons and electrons are both subatomic particles, with the same mass and magnitude of charge.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
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The entire family goes subatomic, and Kang promises to return them home... for a price.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2023
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But when light beams and subatomic things go awry, all five are sucked into the Quantum Realm, and microverse chaos begins.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
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The universe sprang into existence in the big bang as a hot, dense soup of subatomic particles.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 30 May 2018
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He’s been exiled to the Quantum Realm, a subatomic dominion of swirling purple clouds and strange gooey creatures.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2023
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That’s roughly the equivalent of the amount of energy in a brick dropped on your toe from waist height—but carried in one subatomic particle.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
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Some of the answers are there, along with a close-up look at subatomic particle events invisible from Earth.
—Wired, 7 Dec. 2019
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Any theory that seeks to explain the crazy world of subatomic particles must predict the value of g-2.
—William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2021
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After all, no matter how large an object is, it is composed of atoms and subatomic particles that obey the rules of quantum physics.
—Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
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In 1960, Glaser won a Nobel Prize for inventing the bubble chamber, a device used to trace the path of subatomic particles.
—Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2019
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Lang and Cross eventually fight, during which Lang shrinks to subatomic size and disables Cross's suit.
—Sonia Rao, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
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First is Structure, which begins with the Universe and ends with subatomic particles.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2022
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In this case, the bodies are subatomic particles called fermions.
—Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 20 June 2021
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After all, quarks — the building blocks of protons and neutrons—aren’t the only subatomic particles out there.
—Mike Wall, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2020
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The idea of returning to the Quantum Realm and dealing with the people who live on the subatomic plane of existence immediately seems to alarm Janet in the trailer.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2023
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The short answer: neutrinos, subatomic particles that stream from cosmic catastrophes like the Big Bang and the sun.
—Remy Tumin, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
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Equations worked, even in a subatomic world that defied all intuition.
—Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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The universe is a big place, and trying to track a single billion-year-old subatomic particle to its birthplace is a major challenge.
—Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 12 June 2020
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Only dark matter and certain subatomic particles like muons and neutrinos can pass through the thousands of feet of dense rock.
—Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
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The black hole is still enormous at that point — certainly nowhere near the subatomic size at which any putative exotic effects would show up.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
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On Earth, auroras occur when the sun’s solar wind of subatomic particles is swept up by our planet’s magnetic field.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
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Quantum phenomena – the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic levels – are not definite, one thing or another.
—Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
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