subatomic particle
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At 2.4 x 1020eV, the energy of this single subatomic particle is equivalent to dropping a brick on your toe from waist height.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023
The largest scientific project in Antarctica, ICECUBE, attempts to quantify and trace an unfathomably small subatomic particle — the neutrino.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
Through what’s called beta-minus decay, a neutron will transform into a proton, spitting out an electron and another subatomic particle called a neutrino in the process.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 9, 2023
His 10th, published last year, told the story of Dr. Frederick Reines, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for codiscovering the neutrino, a subatomic particle.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
Improbably he wondered if the neutron–the subatomic particle that had just been discovered in England by James Chadwick, and was thus both novel and rather fashionable–might be at the heart of things.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
