Hi Frankie
Thanks for the detailed analysis. I always thought the term was derived from 'particle', to stress their Brownian-like motion:
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion )
I see a whole lot of search-engine queries in your analysis, always from the same giant. No wonder, one goes in all kinds of tangents.
;-(
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