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n. (plural of cosmic ray English)
Usage examples of "cosmic rays".
See, thing is, this iceball has been here many billions of years, doing nothing but sopping up cosmic rays.
The high-energy cosmic rays barrel into it and create ionized atoms.
We still have to worry about hard cosmic rays, but the huge magnetic fields can help with that.
If adequate precautions are not taken, the spaceship and its passengers will be fried by these induced cosmic rays.
Their ships were met by such a blast of cosmic rays as they came toward Thett that the radiation pressure made it almost impossible to advance.
Sometimes mechs used biological components, which were more resistant than prim logic circuits to damage by cosmic rays.
Otherwise, as the speed mounted, cosmic rays would have destroyed too many neurons in the human brains.
One experiment used eight thousand tons of water and was performed in the Morton Salt Mine in Ohio (to avoid other events taking place, caused by cosmic rays, that might be confused with proton decay).
We have evidence from cosmic rays that the same is true for all the matter in our galaxy: there are no antiprotons or antineutrons apart from a small number that are produced as particle/ antiparticle pairs in high-energy collisions.
If Caroline Martin had not been condemned to space, if she had not known the secret of suspended animation, if that suspended animation had not failed to suspend thought, if Herb had not seen the flash that revealed the presence of the shell, if he, himself, had been unable to revive the girl, if Kingsley had not been curious about why cosmic rays should form a definite pattern.
From how long they've been exposed to cosmic rays on their interplanetary journeys between Mars and Earth, we can tell how old they are—.
The thin atmospheres and icy surfaces of all these worlds are being irradiated-by cosmic rays, if nothing else and nitrogen-rich organic compounds are being formed.