Particle in example sentence

The idea is that the photon, the particle of light, the sunlight, the quantum of light captured by a chlorophyll molecule, is then delivered to what's called the reaction center, where it can be turned into chemical energy.

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Now I should confess that as [far as] I'm concerned this would be an abomination if it emitted not one particle of carbon.

And the idea here is that they are looking for a sign of a dark matter particle hitting one of their detectors.

So they go deep inside mines to find a kind of environmental silence that will allow them to hear the ping of a dark matter particle hitting their detector.

And so this is a great conceptual model to have of the world, unless you're a particle physicist.

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