Repel
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In 2006, after roughly 50 million preventable deaths, the United Nations’ World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed the use of DDT to kill and
repel
Anopheles mosquitoes.
More example sentences with word repel
The first one was that when helium atoms touch each other, they
repel.
And since we all smell different and produce chemicals on our skin that either attract or
repel
mosquitoes, some of us are just more attractive than others.
Finally, Richard Feynman, famous physicist, once wrote that if human civilization were destroyed and you could pass only a single concept on to our descendants to help them rebuild civilization, that concept should be that all matter around us is made out of tiny elements that attract each other when they're far apart but
repel
each other when they're close together.
Nuclear radiation, on the other hand, originates in the atomic nucleus, where protons
repel
each other due to their mutually positive charges.
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