elementary particle
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Physicists have taken a step towards nailing down the mass of the neutrino, perhaps the most mysterious of all elementary particles.
From Scientific American
That result was the earliest indication that the proton is not an elementary particle: we now know that it is made of three building blocks called quarks.
From Scientific American
Writing this number in ordinary decimal notation, however, would require more elementary particles than are probably contained in the universe, even employing just one particle per digit.
From Scientific American
It includes six flavours of quark, their six antimatter counterparts and several other elementary particles, including electrons and photons.
From Scientific American
Most of the matter in the universe is dark, and despite searches for signatures of related elementary particles on the sky or in laboratory experiments, none were found so far.
From Scientific American
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