How to Use subatomic in a Sentence

subatomic

adjective

• And that might not be a problem as a state on the subatomic scale.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• Our eyes cannot pierce the subatomic veil nor trace the farthest threads of the cosmic web.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• Something was afoot in the fast and intense realm of subatomic particles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
• Of all the subatomic particles that have any mass at all, the neutrino is the lightest by far.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• The study of quarks and other subatomic particles came in second.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
• Equations worked, even in a subatomic world that defied all intuition.
  — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• The cosmic rays are mostly in the form of neutrons, which are large and heavy (as far as subatomic particles go).
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2020
• Positrons and electrons are both subatomic particles, with the same mass and magnitude of charge.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
• In this case, the bodies are subatomic particles called fermions.
  — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 20 June 2021
• The universe sprang into existence in the big bang as a hot, dense soup of subatomic particles.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 30 May 2018
• The subatomic nuggets known as neutrons meanwhile were working their cosmic alchemy.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• But what happens when that realm of subatomic particles is placed under immense pressure?
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
• In other ways, photons act like subatomic particles, which can have momentum, spin, and more.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024
• Atoms and subatomic particles don’t change, age, or degrade—their behavior is always the same.
  — Michael J. Biercuk, Fortune, 18 July 2024
• Trillions of the subatomic things pass through your body and the rest of the planet every second, without disturbing any atoms.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
• After all, no matter how large an object is, it is composed of atoms and subatomic particles that obey the rules of quantum physics.
  — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
• Qubits are fast but error-prone, because they can be jostled by something as small as a subatomic particle from events in outer space.
  — Stephen Nellis, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
• But within each particle are subparticles called quarks, which is where things get weird at the subatomic level.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2018
• Yet these elusive subatomic particles have proven difficult to study.
  — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2025
• Some of the answers are there, along with a close-up look at subatomic particle events invisible from Earth.
  — Wired, 7 Dec. 2019
• At this point, the entire universe was squeezed into an unfathomably dense spec filled with molten subatomic particles.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• All around us, subatomic particles arc, collide, and barrel along with merry abandon.
  — Tim Kuhlbusch, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2024
• Only dark matter and certain subatomic particles like muons and neutrinos can pass through the thousands of feet of dense rock.
  — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
• The book plunges on, to the ants on the grass, then smaller and smaller into the invisible world of atoms and subatomic particles.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• Any theory that seeks to explain the crazy world of subatomic particles must predict the value of g-2.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2021
• The multiverse is one way to understand the behavior of very, very small things, such as atoms and subatomic particles.
  — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
• The black hole is still enormous at that point — certainly nowhere near the subatomic size at which any putative exotic effects would show up.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
• Uncertainty is the defining state of affairs at the subatomic level.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• That’s roughly the equivalent of the amount of energy in a brick dropped on your toe from waist height—but carried in one subatomic particle.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• But when light beams and subatomic things go awry, all five are sucked into the Quantum Realm, and microverse chaos begins.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023