xi particle

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any of a family of baryons having strangeness −2 and isotopic spin ½. Symbol: Ξ

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

First recorded in 1960–65

Even Xi chimed in on the debate the other day by saying that the blue in ‘APEC blue’ should remain permanent.
Obama and Xi Jinping Say They’ll Work Together to Save Environment|Ben Leung|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Prior to that, Chinese state media had designated Obama as just one of many world leaders who had arrived in Beijing to see Xi.
Obama and Xi Jinping Say They’ll Work Together to Save Environment|Ben Leung|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At the summit, Xi had been front and center, seemingly without peer.
Obama and Xi Jinping Say They’ll Work Together to Save Environment|Ben Leung|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Today was the only time all week that Xi shared a platform with another world leader in Beijing on an equal footing.
Obama and Xi Jinping Say They’ll Work Together to Save Environment|Ben Leung|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Unlike Obama in the United States, Xi actually has the power to make that happen in China, if that is really what he wants to do.
Obama and Xi Jinping Say They’ll Work Together to Save Environment|Ben Leung|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This, as a piece of pure economics, does not interest the individual employer a particle.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
I can tell you, my dear idealist—you have not changed a particle, by the way—that there is another side you have never seen.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Let us conceive a particle of air situated immediately over the earth's polar axis.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Then let us imagine the particle moving toward the equator with the speed of an ordinary wind.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
It was a hair-raising problem, too, and called for every ounce of nerve and every particle of skill the boy possessed.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run|Stanley R. Matthews