You could choose any element to use in a particle accelerator, but the most commonly-used one is Hydrogen- it's the smallest, the lightest, and most abundant of all elements.
Particles inside a solid are packed tightly into neat rows, those that are in a gas are floating around an moving randomly and in a liquid they are not as tightly packed and aren't in rows
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