All of that, however, can leave you out of shape just when you need a burst of energy most.

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But such a car needs a burst of energy to get going again.

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As every schoolboy knows, if you bring a particle and an antiparticle together, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy.

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Since, as every schoolboy knows, when matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy, the equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have annihilated each other long ago and the universe should now be filled with energy and little else, which is evidently not the case.

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That is using up all their fuel and exploding in a brilliant burst of energy.

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After starting up his companies in a promethean burst of energy, he'd bring in managers and administrators.

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My understanding is, they reached out because the film did create a sort of burst of energy.

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Supercapacitors have a big internal surface-area that allows a large amount of energy to be delivered rapidly and are used in some electric cars to provide a short burst of power for rapid acceleration and in hybrids to recover energy during braking.

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"This is the most spectacular burst ever seen at high energy, " said Dr Valerie Connaughton, a scientist from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and a member of Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) instrument team.

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