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neutron comparison table

Subject	is not accelerated by	has desintegration energy	is part of	is a kind of	has quantum behavior	has number of quark	is an instance of	has spin	obey	has mass	has decay product	has definition	has charge	has lifetime	has composition
neutral particle	electric or magnetic fields			particle					uncertainty principle			A particle with zero charge	0
nucleon			nucleus	charge multiplet	Fermi-Dirac statistics	3		1/2	exclusion principle	939 MeV		The generic name for the proton and the neutron.		-has source: Hopkins, J. 1976 Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago Press
radioactive particle		the total energy produced when the particle decays		particle					uncertainty principle		the products produced immediately after decay	A particle which can produce harmful radioactivity directly through its decay or by interacting with other particles.		The average time in which a particle decays
neutron	electric or magnetic fields	the total energy produced when the particle decays	nucleus		Fermi-Dirac statistics	3	radioactive particle	1/2	uncertainty principle	1.6749 × 10-24 g	proton, electron	Stable within the nucleus, the neutron if isolated decays, with a ha half-life of fifteen minutes.	0	15 minutes	two down quarks and one up quark

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