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Subject is not accelerated by has desintegration energy is part of has quantum behavior has acceptance statu obey has synonym has mass has decay product has definition has charge has lifetime is accelerated by

antiparticle uncertainty principle Particles with identical mass and spin as those of ordinary matter, but with opposite charge. Antimatter has been produced experimentally, but little of it is found in nature. Why this should be so is one of the questions that must be answered by any adequate theory of the early universe.

boson Bose-Einstein statistics uncertainty principle A particle, or pattern of string vibration, with a whole number amount of spin; typically a messenger particle.

charged particle uncertainty principle A particle with non-zero charge non-zero electric or magnetic fields

element Universe uncertainty principle atom The fundamental unit of a chemical element. An atom consists of a nucleus, which may contain protons and neutrons, and electrons, which occupy shells that surround the nucleus and are centered on it.

elementary particle uncertainty principle A particle considered to be fundamental, i.e. not composite, a particle which cannot be separated into components

fermion Fermi-Dirac statistics exclusion principle Elementary particle with fractional spin. The proton, electron, neutron, and other elementary particles are all fermions.

hypothetical particle hypothetical uncertainty principle

massless particle uncertainty principle 0 A particle with zero mass

molecule uncertainty principle The smallest unit of a chemical compound. A molecule is composed of two or more atoms, linked by interactions of their electrons.

neutral particle electric or magnetic fields uncertainty principle A particle with zero charge 0

radioactive particle the total energy produced when the particle decays 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

secondary cosmic ray uncertainty principle Atomic fragment - mainly muons - produced by collisions between primary cosmic rays and the molecules in Earth's atmosphere.

virtual particle uncertainty principle Quantum uncertainties in energy make it possible for virtual particles to be constantly created and annihilated during elementary particle interactions. Elementary particles are able to make use of these virtual particles within their interactions.

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Subject	is not accelerated by	has desintegration energy	is part of	has quantum behavior	has acceptance statu	obey	has synonym	has mass	has decay product	has definition	has charge	has lifetime	is accelerated by
antiparticle						uncertainty principle				Particles with identical mass and spin as those of ordinary matter, but with opposite charge. Antimatter has been produced experimentally, but little of it is found in nature. Why this should be so is one of the questions that must be answered by any adequate theory of the early universe.
boson				Bose-Einstein statistics		uncertainty principle				A particle, or pattern of string vibration, with a whole number amount of spin; typically a messenger particle.
charged particle						uncertainty principle				A particle with non-zero charge	non-zero		electric or magnetic fields
element			Universe			uncertainty principle	atom			The fundamental unit of a chemical element. An atom consists of a nucleus, which may contain protons and neutrons, and electrons, which occupy shells that surround the nucleus and are centered on it.
elementary particle						uncertainty principle				A particle considered to be fundamental, i.e. not composite, a particle which cannot be separated into components
fermion				Fermi-Dirac statistics		exclusion principle				Elementary particle with fractional spin. The proton, electron, neutron, and other elementary particles are all fermions.
hypothetical particle					hypothetical	uncertainty principle
massless particle						uncertainty principle		0		A particle with zero mass
molecule						uncertainty principle				The smallest unit of a chemical compound. A molecule is composed of two or more atoms, linked by interactions of their electrons.
neutral particle	electric or magnetic fields					uncertainty principle				A particle with zero charge	0
radioactive particle		the total energy produced when the particle decays				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
secondary cosmic ray						uncertainty principle				Atomic fragment - mainly muons - produced by collisions between primary cosmic rays and the molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
virtual particle						uncertainty principle				Quantum uncertainties in energy make it possible for virtual particles to be constantly created and annihilated during elementary particle interactions. Elementary particles are able to make use of these virtual particles within their interactions.