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

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

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 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

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