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- noun Plural form of
strangelet .
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Examples
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Besides, Michio Kaku says the likelihood of being sucked into a man made black hole or zapped into something else entirely by strangelets is low.
They'll turn the key in the ignition and that's us all over! 2008
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Other concerns include the creation of "strangelets" -- little things created when quarks, which make up protons and neutrons, are rearranged and remixed to make a certain type of negatively charged particle that will go around turning everything it touches into a negatively charged strangelet like itself.
Ali A. Rizvi: Re-Creating Creation, Take 2: The Large Hadron Collider Fires Up Again 2009
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Other concerns include the creation of "strangelets" -- little things created when quarks, which make up protons and neutrons, are rearranged and remixed to make a certain type of negatively charged particle that will go around turning everything it touches into a negatively charged strangelet like itself.
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Doomsday-inclined scientists say the apparatus, 17 miles in circumference, could accidentally produce black holes or hypothetical particles known as strangelets, either of which would destroy the earth.
Ms. Popularity 2008
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Other collider experiments -- there's one that's gonna take place next summer at CERN -- have the possibility of creating something called strangelets, which are kind of like antimatter whenever they hit other matter they destroy it, and obliterate it.
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Scientists from a Texas University claim to have discovered positive proof that tiny cosmic missiles known as strangelets occasionally hit the Earth, passing right through it as if it were naught but a block of butter.
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Other collider experiments -- there's one that's gonna take place next summer at CERN -- have the possibility of creating something called strangelets, which are kind of like antimatter whenever they hit other matter they destroy it, and obliterate it.
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Other collider experiments -- there's one that's gonna take place next summer at CERN -- have the possibility of creating something called strangelets, which are kind of like antimatter whenever they hit other matter they destroy it, and obliterate it.
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Earlier this year, a science writer and a radiation-safety specialist filed a lawsuit to stop scientists from switching the collider on, arguing that it might generate a catastrophic black hole or create "strangelets," hypothetical dense matter that could spread, turning the earth into a lifeless rock.
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Any particle physicists care to illuminate us on the reason why the LHC might make mini-blackholes but not "strangelets"?
Slashdot: Science CmdrTaco 2010
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