How to Use elementary particle in a Sentence

elementary particle

noun
  • Strings also appear in the way the strong force acts among quarks, which are the elementary particles that make up a proton.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Quarks and gluons are two such elementary particles that combine to form protons and neutrons.
    — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Palmer played the Higgs boson — an elementary particle present in all things.
    — Greg Luca, Alia Malik and Krista Torralva |, ExpressNews.com, 31 May 2020
  • Instead, it was first used to explain how protons and neutrons are made of elementary particles called quarks and gluons.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, it was first used to explain how protons and neutrons are made of elementary particles called quarks and gluons.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2023
  • Physicists assume the stuff consists of some sort of elementary particle lingering from the big bang.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Answering these questions is the work of elementary particle physics.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Recent measurements of the mass of the elementary particle known as the W boson provide a useful case study as to why.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Viewed from afar, as if through a telescope, a black hole should behave like a planet, a star, or any other conglomerate of elementary particles.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
  • That's because any dust, gas, or elementary particle placed at the horizon should fall into the black hole, maintaining the vacuum state.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Controversy rages over something called the Rusakov field and an elementary particle known as Dust.
    — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The unstable nature of nothing gives rise to elementary particles.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The vibrations are the interactions that occur between electrons and phonons, which are the two main elementary particles in solids.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 May 2016
  • They're made of quarks, an elementary particle that serves as a building block for matter by coming together to form the protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Then there are dozens of particles made up of those elementary particles, including hadrons, which are constructed of quarks and gluons, and mesons, made of a quark and anti-quark.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
  • And that makes 61 elementary particles.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
  • So, to widen their search, scientists are looking at lighter particles with less energy than a proton, an elementary particle found in the nucleus of every atom.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2019
  • Or maybe, just maybe, the anomaly points to a monumental discovery, the existence of a new type of elementary particle called a sterile neutrino.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2024
  • The answer might involve very strange elementary particles known as neutrinos, which don’t have electrical charge and can thus act as either matter or antimatter.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Voids could even help to nail down the nature of —elementary particles, once thought to be massless, that pervade the universe while barely interacting with ordinary matter.
    — Michael D. Lemonick, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The main point of studying magic is to potentially improve quantum computers rather than reveal new insights about elementary particles.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The known elementary particles and their interactions obey a set of equations called the Standard Model of particle physics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
  • Physicists measure elementary particle masses in units of millions of electron volts – shortened to MeV.
    — John Conway, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The basic profile of monopoles depicts them as elementary particles carrying magnetic charge.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2018
  • Physicists consider this the upper limit for the mass of any single elementary particle, with any particle above this collapsing to birth a microscopic black hole.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 June 2026
  • Lily Asquith, a physicist searching for the Higgs boson--the elementary particle believed to give everything in the universe mass--is using more than her eyes.
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2010
  • Other elementary particles—those that researchers don’t believe can be divided any further—include six flavors of leptons and the Higgs, known as a scalar boson.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
  • One such elementary particle is the neutrino, Indu’s absolute favourite!
    — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The fast particles would have subsequently decayed into the quarks, electrons and other elementary particles that exist today.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Voids could even help to nail down the nature of neutrinos—elementary particles, once thought to be massless, that pervade the universe while barely interacting with ordinary matter.
    — Michael D. Lemonick, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024

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