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Example sentences for "particles"

Lexicographically close words:
participle; participles; particklar; partickler; particle; particolored; particoloured; particula; particular; particulares
  1. The particles of which the substance is composed have an active molecular motion, but the morphosis of the production has not yet been properly observed.

  2. The product is, therefore, assumed to be, and can, under the circumstances, be no other than particles of the composition CN and weight 26.

  3. SAND'-BLIND, afflicted with partial blindness, in which particles of sand seem to float before the eyes.

  4. Place the skin open on the ground with the fur side down, and remove the flesh and pieces of fat adhering; scrape the skin well, so as to get away all the loose particles of under-skin or pelt.

  5. It is particularly cleanly in its habits when domesticated, and spends much of its time in trimming its fur and carefully divesting its hair of particles of dust.

  6. He then with violent puffs dissipates the dust and crumbled particles of the nest, and sucks out the inhabitants of the comb by such forcible inhalations as to be heard at two hundred yards distant or more.

  7. Anderson was studying the impact of cosmic particles on lead.

  8. Fermi had found that slow neutrons, which had very little energy, were easily absorbed by atomic nuclei—more easily than fast neutrons were absorbed, and certainly more easily than charged particles were.

  9. The particles in the plasma would stream toward one end or another and would then bounce back producing a so-called “magnetic mirror”.

  10. You could imagine that a neutron being absorbed by a uranium nucleus might make the latter so unstable as to cause it to emit 2 alpha particles and become radium.

  11. Could it be that when the universe was first formed there were indeed equal quantities of particles and antiparticles but that they were somehow segregated, perhaps into galaxies and “antigalaxies”?

  12. After he had reported his work, other physicists repeated it and also got a variety of beta particles and were also unable to decide what was going on.

  13. However, four different kinds of beta particles (different in their energy content) were given off and the matter grew very confusing.

  14. It would take gamma rays or cosmic particles with 1836 times as much energy to form the proton-antiproton pair as would suffice for the electron-positron pair.

  15. Such a mixture of charged particles is called a “plasma”.

  16. The Unknown Physical theory makes it seem that particles and antiparticles ought to exist in the universe in equal quantities.

  17. Cosmic particles of the necessary energies existed but they were rare and the chance of someone being present with a particle detector just as a rare super-energetic cosmic particle happened to form a proton-antiproton pair was very small.

  18. For the particles of our bodies are often totally changed during our lives; yet no one imagines that the old man has not the same body as in infancy.

  19. Hence not even Omnipotence can raise from the grave the identical body laid there, because the particles may enter successively into a multitude of other human bodies.

  20. This science makes it certainly probable, that even the infinitesimal particles of matter have a definite and peculiar shape, and size, and weight, in each of the elements.

  21. There is, however, danger of mistaking certain motions of the particles of matter, by chemical agency, for the effect of vitality.

  22. As the water flowed through the ancient irrigation ditches, some evaporated and lime particles settled to the bottom.

  23. Over a period of time, these particles coated the ditches--thus actually cementing them.

  24. That it cannot possibly be the product of any cunning arrangement of material particles is demonstrated beyond peradventure by what we now know of the correlation of physical forces.

  25. To secure some degree of uniformity in the grain, and at the same time remove all the larger particles of grit, pass the sand first through a fine sieve.

  26. The loose particles of the pigment appear to be held together without becoming harsh or stringy, as might easily happen if varnish of sufficient strength was added to produce the same effect.

  27. Being an alkali, a strong solution would have a tendency to dissolve the greasy particles of the drawing and cause them to spread and thicken.

  28. They are stopped by glass, aluminum and other metals, and are really particles charged with positive electricity.

  29. A little dissolves in the water, while the scales and incrustations in fine particles are carried along in the current.

  30. They can be stopped by lead, and are really particles charged with negative electricity.

  31. The dissociation of such atoms and the liberation of their constituent particles develops a fabulous energy.

  32. The Protozoa--those earliest cells, the progenitors of the whole animal and vegetable kingdom--grow by feeding on the minute particles which they find in the fluid surrounding them.

  33. To add to their distress, the air was filled for several days with thick clouds of earthy particles and cinders, which blinded the men, and made respiration exceedingly difficult.

  34. The usual practice is to run it through a fanning mill to remove the dust and small particles of the heads or chaff that are broken up in thrashing.

  35. When he increased the electric tension four- to six-fold, the black-lead particles at once compacted themselves so as to form a bridge of excellent conductivity.

  36. An instant after a signal has taken its way through the coherer a small hammer strikes the tiny tube, jarring its particles asunder, so that they resume their normal state of high resistance.

  37. When iron filings are scattered over a magnet, the particles of iron arrange themselves in certain determined lines called magnetic curves.

  38. At 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and far below that temperature, oxygen and hydrogen are elastic gaseous bodies, whose particles tend to rush away from one another with great force.

  39. Comparing these formed particles with those in the Atlantic soundings, he found the two to be identical; and thus proved that the chalk, like the soundings, contains these mysterious coccoliths and coccospheres.

  40. Water, at the same temperature, is a strong though brittle solid whose particles tend to cohere into definite geometrical shapes, and sometimes build up frosty imitations of the most complex forms of vegetable foliage.

  41. Fog consists of material particles (dust or smoke) on which vapour has condensed; if these particles can be removed the air will be clear.

  42. When air is warmed and ascends it carries the dust particles with it, and these particles striking against any cold surface with which they come into contact stick to it.

  43. That all air is full of dust is seen when a stream of sunlight crosses a room; the particles of dust are then clearly perceived moving rapidly in all directions in the air.

  44. The walls of the chimney are colder than the smoke that comes into contact with them, and the particles of soot in the smoke striking against them are deposited on them.

  45. Smoke is warm air made visible by the particles of soot with which it is laden.

  46. The particles of soot would fall to the ground except that they are carried upwards in the stream of warm air.

  47. This will drag out any hard particles that may be lodged in the end and after this has been done the pivot should be pithed clean and polished with a smooth hard steel burnisher covered with oil.

  48. It should be covered above to prevent particles of ice from falling on the watches which are to be placed on the floor or on a shelf of the chamber, but the sides may be left partly open to improve the circulation of cold air.

  49. A pivot that has been treated in this way will not pit the end stone a second time unless carelessness in the use of hard powder permits additional particles to come in contact with the pivot or end stone.

  50. Many miracles were wrought by his intercession and by the use of particles of the cross he had erected.

  51. Like so many of the Celtic saints, the name of this one has been changed by the addition of particles expressive of reverence.

  52. The baffle plates DD are to separate all entrained particles of water from the air, so that it is delivered to the heaters in a saturated condition at the required temperature.

  53. The lower bar catches any particles of gold that, by awkward management, may have passed the upper one.

  54. The first shovelful of earth thrown up was absolutely full of glittering particles of gold, and the second was even more richly impregnated with the precious metal.

  55. Do you think that with youth and health, and a desire to see everything that is beautiful in creation, I'm going to stand all day and every day up to the knees in dirty water, scraping up little particles of gold?

  56. It has therefore to be blown away from the gold after the mass has been dried over a fire, and in this operation great care is requisite lest the finer particles of gold should be blown off along with it.

  57. No appreciable effect follows the mere contact of air with sulphur particles at atmospheric temperature; but if the particles be raised to a temperature of 500° Fahr.

  58. As to the most effective mesh for the screen or grating, that depends largely on the size of the gold particles contained in the gangue.

  59. The blanket tables are simply a continuation of the mercury tables, but covered with strips of coarse blanket, green baize, or other flocculent material, intended to arrest the heavier metallic particles which have not been amalgamated.

  60. Next the water is carefully lapped in over the side, the pan being now tilted at a greater angle until the lighter particles are all washed away.

  61. We must remember that the particles of gold in the stone may be enveloped with a film of auriferous sulphide, by which they are protected from the solvent action of the mercury.

  62. At the bottom of each ledge is a riffle to arrest the particles of gold.

  63. The finer the particles the closer must be the mesh, so that nothing but careful experiment will enable the battery manager to decide this most important point.

  64. If anything, the amalgamating surface should be widened to give the particles of gold a better chance to settle.

  65. Even if slight scaling has already taken place, the graphite particles will penetrate and the scale come away gradually.

  66. It will be obvious then that the most effective method of roasting will be one that enables the particles to be thoroughly oxidised at the lowest cost in fuel and in the most rapid manner.

  67. The brilliant particles are numerous, but so small that I have to pick them up with a straw moistened in my mouth.

  68. Three of them, at one time together, at another separately, come and nibble at the edges of the cell; they break off particles which they reduce to paste for a new piece of work.

  69. Fuel air explosive weapons may be described as devices which, upon activation, cause liquid fuel particles to be dispersed in the form of a detonable cloud in the air and then detonate the cloud.

  70. In a method for producing an explosion comprising the steps of dispersing a cloud of liquid particles in the air and detonating the cloud, the improvement residing in utilizing 1,2-butylene oxide in gel form as said liquid.

  71. Empty tin cans, particles of food and other refuse will be collected in receptacles kept in the trenches for that purpose and carried to the rear and buried in pits.

  72. If the trench wall has been demolished by artillery fire, the particles of cloth make digging out the bottom of the trench a very difficult matter.

  73. Scraps of food should be scraped from the mess tins before immersing them in water, otherwise washing water becomes filled with small particles of food.

  74. In a heterogeneous body unlike parts or particles are intermingled, often without apparent order or plan.

  75. A flame is both hot and luminous; if it contains few solid particles it will yield little light, tho it may afford intense heat, as in the case of a hydrogen-flame.

  76. That which is adhesive tends to join itself to the surface of any other body with which it is placed in contact; cohesive expresses the tendency of particles of the same substance to hold together.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "particles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.