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  • Thumbnail for Particle
    In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object which can be described by several physical or chemical...
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  • Thumbnail for Air shower (physics)
    cascades of subatomic particles and ionized nuclei, produced in the atmosphere when a primary cosmic ray enters the atmosphere. Particles of cosmic radiation...
    26 KB (3,626 words) - 09:56, 6 September 2024
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    Nanoparticle (redirect from Nano particle)
    nanoparticle or ultrafine particle is a particle of matter 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter. The term is sometimes used for larger particles, up to 500 nm, or...
    125 KB (13,000 words) - 12:46, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Linear energy transfer
    linear energy transfer (LET) is the amount of energy that an ionizing particle transfers to the material traversed per unit distance. It describes the...
    14 KB (1,858 words) - 19:50, 15 May 2024
  • 320 EeV particle in 1991 (Oh-My-God particle), a 213 EeV particle in 1993 and a 280 EeV particle in 2001. This makes the Amaterasu particle the third...
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    Haze Nanoparticle Particle Particulates Smog Smoke Spray Aerosol terms Aerosol impaction Agglomerate Primary particle Flocculate Primary aerosol Secondary...
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    An aerosol is a suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in air or another gas. Aerosols can be generated from natural or human causes. The...
    45 KB (5,893 words) - 01:49, 5 November 2024
  • Applications of particle counters are separated into three primary categories: Aerosol particle counters Liquid particle counters Solid particle counters Aerosol...
    26 KB (3,519 words) - 23:04, 14 October 2024
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    Dust is made of fine particles of solid matter. On Earth, it generally consists of particles in the atmosphere that come from various sources such as...
    24 KB (2,672 words) - 05:43, 1 November 2024
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    Cosmic ray (redirect from Cosmic particle)
    Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through...
    96 KB (10,552 words) - 14:25, 5 November 2024
  • (in polymer science): Reversible formation of aggregates in which the particles are not in physical contact. Agglomeration (except in polymer science)...
    18 KB (2,161 words) - 18:56, 30 October 2024
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    and other combustion products. Smoke is an aerosol (or mist) of solid particles and liquid droplets that are close to the ideal range of sizes for Mie...
    62 KB (6,459 words) - 03:22, 19 November 2024
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    A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932...
    65 KB (6,911 words) - 11:09, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Particle aggregation
    Particle agglomeration refers to the formation of assemblages in a suspension and represents a mechanism leading to the functional destabilization of colloidal...
    21 KB (2,603 words) - 01:40, 20 July 2024
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    Particulates (redirect from Fine particle)
    atmospheric particulate matter (see below for other names) are microscopic particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air. The term aerosol refers...
    198 KB (19,408 words) - 09:23, 17 November 2024
  • different interaction channels. Detection can be made by sensing the primary particle and/or through the detection of secondary reaction products. Such a...
    14 KB (1,908 words) - 17:46, 6 August 2024
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    Fumed silica has a very strong thickening effect. Primary particle size is 5–50 nm. The particles are non-porous and have a surface area of 50–600 m2/g...
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  • Thumbnail for Particle physics
    Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies...
    41 KB (4,203 words) - 23:29, 13 November 2024
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    J/psi meson (redirect from J particle)
    The J/ψ (J/psi) meson /ˈdʒeɪ ˈsaɪ ˈmiːzɒn/ is a subatomic particle, a flavor-neutral meson consisting of a charm quark and a charm antiquark. Mesons formed...
    17 KB (1,838 words) - 20:03, 11 November 2024
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    dispersity is a measure of the heterogeneity of sizes of molecules or particles in a mixture. A collection of objects is called uniform if the objects...
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