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particle noun atom, bit, component part, crumb, cutting, fragment, grain, granule, hint, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, piece, pittance, point, scintilla, snippet, speck, spot, suggestion, trace See also: constituent, element, iota, minimum, modicum, part, portion, scintilla How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Result: Each atom's center, or nucleus, splits and releases smaller, subatomic particles. Most onlookers reckoned that the pictures decorating the 1975 Dodge Tradesman Maxivan were some sort of Native American designs, Michelle Feynman recalls, not the innovative depictions of subatomic particles that had helped her father win a share of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics. Quantum cryptography depends on a defining discovery in physics: that subatomic particles can exist in multiple states at once until something interacts with them. |
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