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  • noun Plural form of strangelet.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon 2002

  • 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.

    Missiles that Fly Through the Earth | Impact Lab 2002

  • 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.

    Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon 2002

  • 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.

    Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon 2002

  • 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.

    Fact-Checking the Universe 2008

  • 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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