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nanobullets

nanobullets is the plural of nanobullet.

Meaning of nanobullet

Noun

nanobullet (plural nanobullets)

  1. A nanoscale bullet, typically used to administer medicine.
    • PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target.2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech

Questions about nanobullets

What is nanobullets the plural of?
Nanobullets is the plural of nanobullet.

Words near nanobullets in the dictionary

  1. nanobubblers
  2. nanobubbles
  3. nanobud
  4. nanobuds
  5. nanobullet
  6. nanobullets
  7. nanobunch
  8. nanobunches
  9. nanobunching
  10. nanocable
  11. nanocables

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