nuclear particles

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Yang and Lee's hypothesis, though, suggested that the behavior of nuclear particles in beta decay might not look the same if you flipped the events in an imaginary mirror.

From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2023

The main source of concern here is radioactive dust, or the nuclear particles that are created by an event such as the Chernobyl accident.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 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

These devices use magnetic and electric fields to increase the speeds of nuclear particles.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The nuclei of these unstable "isotopes," as they are called, are "uncomfortable" with the particular mixture of nuclear particles comprising them, and they decrease this internal stress through the process of radioactive decay.

From Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives by U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency