OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27157

elementary particle

Meanings (ES + gloss)
partícula elemental
A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
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