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Accretion in sentence

10 examples of Accretion in a sentence

The dinner plate by which material falls onto the black hole is called the accretion disc, shown here in blue.
In this image, I'm interested in where this white blob forms and if, as a result, there's any relationship between the jet and the accretion disc material.
Steno had seen how gallstones form in wet organs by accretion.
It's accretion.
All you can see is the deflection of the light around them, and occasionally, when a star or a cloud of gas comes into their orbit, it is ripped apart by tidal forces, forming what we call an accretion disk.
The accretion disk glows brightly in the x-rays, and huge magnetic fields can launch the material into space at nearly the speed of light.
It's an accretion of moments that add up to where we are now, where trivia becomes news.
But gradually, as the buildings are repaired, we will see the accretion of a limestone reef beneath the city.
An accretion itself is a huge sink of carbon dioxide.
Such a construct would be far more popular with citizens who are unhappy with the accretion of EU power in Brussels and the loss of traditional sovereignty.