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elementary particle
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Noun
elementary particle (plural elementary particles)
- (physics) A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
- 2012 March, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
- The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
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- See also Thesaurus:elementary particle
Translations
subatomic particle that does not consist of smaller particles
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