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subatomic particle

n.
Any of various units of matter below the size of an atom, including the elementary particles and hadrons.
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In quantum physics, a subatomic particle can influence the behavior of another particle located very far from it, although there's absolutely no connection between them.
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GENEVA -- Scientists at the world's largest smasher said Wednesday they have discovered two new subatomic particles never seen before that could widen our understanding of the universe.
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The fact is that this Goddamn Particle is a subatomic particle that gives all kinds of matter in the universe their mass, size and shape.
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It was Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose after whom class of subatomic particles ' boson' is named.
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It's long been accepted that six different "flavors" of particles called quarks combine to form larger subatomic particles.
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Dozens of types of subatomic particle exist, and scientists suspect there may be still more to discover.
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Each subatomic particle can be interpreted as the result of the interaction of energy in the "entropy-state" with one or more quanta of the a-temporal physical space.
Toward a new interpretation of subatomic particles and their motion inside a-temporal physical space
He claimed that $12 billion was a cheap price to discover the sixth and elusive "top quark" subatomic particle.
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For example, a subatomic particle can disappear from one orbit and simultaneously appear in another orbit.
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Like atoms, subatomic particles can link up to form "molecules." A long-studied subatomic particle called Lambda (1405) is actually a molecule of two tightly knit particles, researchers report in the April 3 Physical Review Letters.
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Higgs published a paper predicting the existence of a subatomic particle that came to be known as the Higgs boson.
Yep, that was a Higgs boson

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