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Hadron, HAD ron, is a major group of subatomic particles. See more »
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Alpha particle
Alpha AL fuh particle is an atomic nucleus that consists of two protons and two neutrons.
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Antimatter is matter composed of elementary particles that are the opposite of ordinary particles.
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Baryon, BAR ee on, is a unit of matter smaller than an atom composed of three still smaller particles called quarks.
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Beta, BAY tuh, particle is an electron given off by the nucleus of a radioactive atom when it undergoes a nuclear transformation.
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Boson, BOH son, is any member of a certain class of atomic and subatomic particles.
See more »Cyclotron
Cyclotron is a machine that accelerates electrically charged atomic particles to high energies.
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Fermion, FEHR mee on or FUR mee on, is any member of a certain class of atomic and subatomic particles.
See more »Meson
Meson, MEHS on, MEHZ on, MEE son, or MEE zon, is any of about 150 kinds of unstable subatomic particles.
See more »Muon
Muon, MYOO on, is a type of elementary particle that closely resembles an electron but has a greater mass.
See more »Neutrino
Neutrino is any of three types of subatomic particles that have no electric charge.
See more »Particle detector
Particle detector is a device that physicists use to observe subatomic particles, units of matter smaller than an atom.
See more »Psi particle
Psi, sy, particle, also called a J particle, is a type of subatomic particle.
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Quark, kwawrk, is one of the three families of particles that serve as "building blocks" of matter.
See more »Shadow matter
Shadow matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is thought to interact with ordinary matter only through the force of gravity.
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