Subatomic particle
Crossword Clue and Answers
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Publications
- The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 23 May 2021
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Monday, 17 May 2021
- The Guardian Quick - Saturday, 19 Dec 2020
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Tuesday, 1 Dec 2020
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Thursday, 27 Aug 2020
- The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Monday, 13 Jul 2020
- The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Wednesday, 6 Nov 2019
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Wednesday, 24 Jan 2018
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Monday, 2 Oct 2017
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Tuesday, 7 Feb 2017
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Thursday, 22 Dec 2016
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Friday, 11 Mar 2016
Crossword Answers
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ION
A particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
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KAON
An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision
MUON
An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino
PION
A meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision
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BOSON
Any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons
MESON
An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0
QUARK
(physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3; "quarks have not been observed directly but theoretical predictions based on their existence have been confirmed experimentally"
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PROTON
A stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
LEPTON
An elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0
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NEUTRON
An elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus
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NEUTRINO
An elementary particle with zero charge and zero mass
PARTICLE
A function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
ELECTRON
An elementary particle with negative charge
POSITRON
An elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation