Particle Physics
Relatively recent experimental results have confirmed what philosophers throughout history had theorized all along; that all matter is made up of elementary particles. Those curious about this cutting-edge field of physics known as particle physics should post their questions here, including those about fundamental particles, fundamental forces, Grand Unified Theories, and the extraordinary devices that have been or need to be engineered to research them.
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Ayush SApparently not. Electromagnetic radiation doesn't have an "anti-" form, and light from antimatter seems to be the same as light...
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Depending on the solvent used to dissolve the sample NH2 may or may not show up on h NMR. If it is dissolved in D2O (heavy water)...
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Radon has atomic number 86. That means it has 86 protons. The specific isotope doesn't matter. (It does matter if you want to...
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Anything in column 15 - nitrogen and phosphorus are two examples.
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All the neutrons in all the elements have the same mass and dimensions. The neutron mass is 1, 674 927 29.10-27 kg.
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The six flavors of quarks are: top bottom up down charm strange
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there are 3 electrons as it is in the first Period of Group 1
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Electrons do not travel in pairs. An atomic or molecular orbital can hold a pair of electrons, which is probably what you're...
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12. Xe has +4 oxidation state in this compound. so if you use VSEPR Theory then you can understand the actual structure and total...
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Copper's, or Cu's, atomic number is 29. This number tells us that copper has 29 protons. The two stable isotopes of copper are...
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No. So far it looks like there is nothing smaller inside an atom than quarks.
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The atomic number of an element gives its number of protons. Fluorine's atomic number is 9. Thus, fluorine has 9 protons.
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Gluons are force mediators, mesons are composite bosons, and bosons have an integral spin. Neither of these are the smallest...
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There are three commonly referred to subatomic particles, the proton, the neutron, and the electron. Inside of the atom itself,...
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Indium has 49 protons, 49 electrons, and 66 neutrons.
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The LHC is the culmination of many years of work by many different scientists, no one person invented it.
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H20 is the chemical formula better known as water. To find the number of protons in water, we first need to know the number of...
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An atom's atomic number gives its number of protons. Calcium's atomic number is 20. Therefore, calcium has 20 protons, regardless...
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No, light is not made up of quarks and/or leptons. Light is electromagnetic energy, and the carrier of this energy is the photon.
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The neutrons in the nuclear cause the atom to be electrically neutral and therefore the electrons do not collapse into the...
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53 protons and neutrons check the periodic table of elements
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The isotope nickel-59 has 28 protons and 31 neutrons
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sounds like something in a SciFi story, not physics. Not exactlyA space rift is that event in space in which due to the growing...
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If you are asking how elements differ in properties: The difference in protons (and their assumed number of electrons) and...
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The atomic number of an atom tells us its number of protons. Looking at a periodic table, we see that ununoctium's atomic number...
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the answer is 24 electrons and yes im only 14 yrs old again
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I'm going to assume that you're wondering why they can travel through matter so easily, which is kind of a layman's term for...
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Neptunium's number of protons is equal to its atomic number. Checking a periodic table, we see that neptunium's atomic number is...
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We know that protons are positively charged, and they don't like each other, let alone want to fuse. But in fusion "environments"...
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Zirconium has 40 protons, 40 electrons, and 51 neutrons(:
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Silicon's atomic number is 14, meaning it has 14 protons. Each of these protons carries a charge of +1, thus silicon has 14...
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The 3 subatomic particles are: proton, electron, and neutrons I think you should write that down:)
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Cosmic strings are "theoretical" subatomic particles that are about one billionth of a millimeter in diameter. They are also...
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4, like all semiconductors.
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A subatomic particle is any particle that is smaller than, and located inside of, an atom. Protons, neutrons, and electrons are...
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6 unpaired electrons
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The decay of an unstable atom by absorbing a wandering positron into the nucleus, converting a neutron into a proton. One...
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Well, if you look at it in a purely elemental capacity we see trends that with an increase in electron shielding, we get a...
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Electrons
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94 protons and 94 neutrons
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Its is formed when two atoms bang into eachother. Scientists are trying to trap antimatter to study it and learn more about it.
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This is an area of active research. Some serious theories say they might exist, but so far, none have been found.but if they...
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The composite quantum mechanical wave function describing the space of an atom in which there is probability of there being an...
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The respective countries, which are involved in studies at CERN. Such are: Germany - 144,0 Mio€ France - 111,2 Mio€ United...
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Bosons are particles with integer spin which do not obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle, therefore a number of them may occupy the...
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No, they are so small they barely interact with matter plus millions of them are travelling through you right this very second.
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Neutrons are very slightly more but almost the same mass as a proton, while electrons are 1,830 times less massive.
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J. J. Thompson identified catode rays as subatomic particles, specifically, electrons.
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An English physicist named James Chadwick discovered the neutron- winning him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932.
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The silver ion, Ag+ contains 46 electrons.
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1s2 2s2p6 3s2p6s2p6s2p6d10 4s2p6d10 5s2p6d10 6s2p6d7
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The positron is another name for the anti-electron. Therefore, its antiparticle is the electron.
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Mn is configured: [Ar] 4s2 3d5 , so Mn2+ has an electron configuration of: [Ar] 4s0 3d5 It looks like that 5 or 3 or (at least)...
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Oxygen's atomic number is 8, so it has 8 protons in its nucleus.
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gives the atom its atomic mass and stablisises the atom to keep the ratio of protons to neutrons equal... like if it wasnt in a...
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The element with 21 protons and electrons is Scandium (Sc). Scandium is the first transition metal and is in Group 3, Period 4 of...
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a small land mammal such as a rat mouse ferret mole ect.
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By recreating Big Bang conditions, scientists at CERN trie to answer following questions: Why is there no-more antimatter left,...
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Mo: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s2 4d4 Mo 3+: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s0 4d3 Mo is 42 on the periodic table,...
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4 - the configuration is 2-8-8-1.
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an alpha particle and a beta particle
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A sulfer atom has: 16 electrons, 16 protons and 16 neutrons but sulfer ions and isotopes do exist where this is different
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The 3 subatomic particles are: proton, electron, and neutrons I think you should write that down:)
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45 protons 99 electrons
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H2 is not an atom, it is a diatomic molecule. Each hydrogen atom has 1 valence electron. When two hydrogen atoms covalently bond...
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well, a quark makes up protons, nutrons and electrons. there are some therios: but no awnser, quarks are basic things. but they...
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Here is a sample of an acknowledgment: First of all, I would like to say Alhamdulillah, for giving me the strength and health to...
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No, quarks are not nucleons. A nucleon is a term (in physics) that is given to either of the two component particles of an atomic...
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The heaviest quark is a top Quark, then bottom quark, then Charm, strange, Down and the lightest is up
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The fluorine atom has 9 protons and 10 neutrons, one of these particle contains 3 quarks so total quarks are 19 x 3 = 57
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35-protons 35-protons and n.o of neutron depends on the isotope
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electrons
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No, whenever an atom emits a positron its atomic number is decreases by one unit (because a proton is converted into a neutron...
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1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2
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Contact forces are the ones which only when there is a contact between the two bodies where as a action at a distance force acts...
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In one of them a positron is emitted. In the other an electron is captured. Since positrons are the antiparticles of electrons,...
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The first and the most common one is a simple radio
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The respective countries, which are involved in studies at CERN. Such are: Germany - 144,0 Mio€ France - 111,2 Mio€ United...
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six electrons.....three double bonds.............
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Proton which is positively charged, Electron negatively charged, and neutron which is neutral.
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A two quark particle is called a meson. They consist of a color - anticolor pair, which produces "white." Examples of mesons...
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In metallic conductors, current is produced by flow of electrons. Usually , protons are not involved in an electrical circuit,...
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NaDH and FaDH2 are the electron carriers in ETS.
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No. Magnesium Chloride (MgCl2) is an ionic compound. Magnesium loses 2 electrons and the two chloride atoms gain one each.
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Positive ions (cations)
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In fact, they were.
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Neutrinos are created in Beta - and Beta + radioactive decay reactions. They are massless, chargeless particles and are extremely...
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