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

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

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

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

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