How to Use subatomic in a Sentence

subatomic

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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
• Of all the subatomic particles that have any mass at all, the neutrino is the lightest by far.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The study of quarks and other subatomic particles came in second.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Positrons and electrons are both subatomic particles, with the same mass and magnitude of charge.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
• The entire family goes subatomic, and Kang promises to return them home... for a price.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2023
• 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
• The universe sprang into existence in the big bang as a hot, dense soup of subatomic particles.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 30 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• The findings from the three groups led, in 2012, to the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last subatomic particle predicted by the Standard Model to be found.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 19 July 2016
• Some of the answers are there, along with a close-up look at subatomic particle events invisible from Earth.
  — Wired, 7 Dec. 2019
• 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
• But this appears to violate a bedrock concept of quantum physics, the rules that describe how the universe works at the atomic and subatomic levels.
  — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Lang and Cross eventually fight, during which Lang shrinks to subatomic size and disables Cross's suit.
  — Sonia Rao, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• First is Structure, which begins with the Universe and ends with subatomic particles.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2022
• In this case, the bodies are subatomic particles called fermions.
  — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 20 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Equations worked, even in a subatomic world that defied all intuition.
  — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Pulses this short give scientists the ability to take snapshots of subatomic particles in the wild.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2024
• In other ways, photons act like subatomic particles, which can have momentum, spin, and more.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024