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Meanings of elementary particles in English

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Usage of elementary particles in English
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During this stage many types of elementary particles may have been present.
Reuters
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The Intercessor there was clear about the link between elementary particles and religion.
The golden compass
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He was one of the world leaders in the theory of elementary particles.
The Irish Times
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All told, physicists have discovered dozens of these elementary particles.
A briefer history of time
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These were joined an instant later by swarms of elementary particles-thestuff of stuff.
A short history of nearly everything
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Used to test theories about elementary particles and forces.
Anathem
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Mrs. Coulter told me what it was, elementary particles, but that's all she called it.
The golden compass
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Mesons came to be understood as particles made up of quarks, while muons are elementary particles.
BBC
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These fields fill the universe and show their presence by affecting the properties of elementary particles.
Wired
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Adobe's Big Bang QuarkXPress has long been one of the elementary particles of the publishing universe.
Wired
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At the time this conversation took place, the physics of elementary particles was still in its infancy.
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
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But as far back as 1950, hyperons had been discovered, elementary particles bigger than protons and neutrons.
Nova
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In this model, the Higgs explains why elementary particles like quarks have mass, and why photons don't.
Wired
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That is, we could treat it 'as if' it were a collection of many, possibly different, elementary particles.
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
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In that case we could conclude from the spectrum of the elementary particles as to the universal symmetries.
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
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They're called elementary particles because you can't break them down any further: there's nothing inside them but themselves.
The golden compass
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