elementary particle
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Researchers believe it is composed of a still-undetected type of elementary particle.
From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025
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 • Feb. 8, 2022
Much of the production’s overall character came from the vibrancy of South Africa, and particularly the extraordinary dancer Dada Masilo, who mirrored Kentridge’s purpose, in part, by becoming the manifestation of a supercharged elementary particle.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2017
Electric charge is conserved in nuclear and elementary particle reactions, even when elementary particles are produced or destroyed.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Our familiar universe of galaxies and stars, planets and people, would be a single elementary particle in the next universe up, the first step of another infinite regress.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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