nuclear particles

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Radioactive dust is a term for nuclear particles that are left on the ground or floating in the air in the aftermath of a nuclear event like Chernobyl.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2022

Researchers soon found that some of the supercharged nuclear particles would glom on to the atoms in the targets and create bigger, heavier elements.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2019

Dubbed a “superfluid” in recognition of its special properties, the material embodies fermions, atomic and nuclear particles distinguished by what is known as their half-integral spin.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2016

For example, the amount of energy in order to disassemble He into 2 protons and 2 neutrons requires 28.3 MeV of work to be done on the nuclear particles.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

And there was Kato Sugihara, looking younger than his twenty-eight years, who had begun to demonstrate the existence of whole orders of structure below the level of nuclear particles.

From The Mercenaries by Piper, H. Beam