Phrase Hound found 43 phrases and 21 compound words that contain particles. The most common are listed below. Open particles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 43
- charged particlesplural of charged particle: Any particle, especially a subatomic particle, that carries an electric charge.
- alpha particlesplural of alpha particle: A doubly positively charged nucleus of a helium-4 atom (consisting of two protons and two neutrons), emitted as a consequence of radioactivity.
- anti-particlesplural of anti-particle: A subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign; a particle that has a reversed world …
- beta particlesplural of beta particle: An energetic electron or positron produced as the result of a nuclear reaction or nuclear decay.
- composite particlesplural of composite particle: A subatomic particle that is not an elementary particle, i.e. a hadron or an atomic nucleus.
- delta particlesplural of delta particle: A hyperon of short life.
- elementary particlesplural of elementary particle: A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
- fundamental particlesplural of fundamental particle: Any of the subatomic particles that does not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
- gamma particlesplural of gamma particle: A photon with a wavelength short enough to be considered a gamma ray, usually emitted from radioactivity.
- hot particlesplural of hot particle: A tiny piece of radioactive material that can become lodged in living tissue.
- point particlesplural of point particle: An idealization of a particle that does not take up space.
- virtual particlesplural of virtual particle: a particle that exists for a limited time and space, introducing uncertainty in their energy and momentum
- W particlesplural of W particle: a fundamental particle, a gauge boson, that, together with the Z-boson, mediates the weak nuclear force; it has a charge of ± 1
- Z particlesplural of Z particle: Z-boson
- modal particlesplural of modal particle: A word class that indicates the mood of an utterance.
- Janus particlesplural of Janus particle: A spherical microscopic particle which has hemispheres with sharply differing properties, such as one hydrophilic hemisphere and one hydrophobic hemisphere
- solar energetic particlesplural of solar energetic particle: A high-energy particle coming from the Sun.
- upsilon particlesplural of upsilon particle: Any of a number of bound states of a heavy quark and its antiquark, especially that formed from a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark.
- strongly interacting massive particlesplural of strongly interacting massive particle: a candidate type of dark matter composed of particles that only interact through the strong nuclear force, one of the fundamental forces of nature, and gravity.
- subatomic particlesplural of subatomic particle: Any of many units of matter smaller than an atom.
- ultrafine particlesplural of ultrafine particle: A particle with diameter less than about 100 nanometers (nm).
- weakly interacting massive particlesplural of weakly interacting massive particle: A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem.
- Majorana particlesplural of Majorana particle: A fermion that is its own antiparticle and thus capable of self-annihilation.
- ad particlesplural of ad particle: A cluster of atoms or molecules that is adsorbed onto the surface of a material.
- angel particlesplural of angel particle: A Majorana particle.
Compound words 21
- nanoparticlesplural of nanoparticle: Any microscopic particle less than about 100 nanometers (nm) in diameter.
- microparticlesplural of microparticle: An extremely small particle.
- quasiparticlesplural of quasiparticle: Any entity that has some characteristics of a distinct particle, but comprises a grouping of multiple particles
- antiparticlesplural of antiparticle: A subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign; a particle that has a reversed world …
- astroparticlesplural of astroparticle: A subatomic particle of cosmic origin
- bioparticlesplural of bioparticle: A particle of biological material
- cosmoparticlesplural of cosmoparticle: Any subatomic particle of cosmological origin
- ferroparticlesplural of ferroparticle: A ferromagnetic particle.
- holoparticlesplural of holoparticle: A whole particle (typically of a lipoprotein) that is manipulated as a single entity
- immunoparticlesplural of immunoparticle: A particle or nanoparticle designed to carry antibodies