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elementary particle

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A fundamental particle; any of the subatomic particles that do not consist of other, smaller particles; the gauge bosons, leptons and quarks.

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

elementary school elementary schooler elementary spaceship elementary substance elementary symmetric polynomial elementary topos

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