fundamental particle

noun

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And fermions need not be fundamental particles; in materials, there are groups of electrons that collectively obey the same exclusionary math, like the configurations known as Majorana fermions that might someday power quantum computers. Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2025 That particular pathway is quite important since it’s used to measure properties of the Higgs boson, a particle (first measured in 2012) that helps explain the mass of all other fundamental particles. Matt Von Hippel, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025 One of its most significant discoveries was the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that explained how elementary particles have mass. George Petras, USA Today, 17 May 2025 Since the Large Hadron Collider was completed in 2008, it’s made a number of discoveries, most notably that of the Higgs boson, the particle that gives other fundamental particles their mass. Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fundamental particle

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1901, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of fundamental particle was in 1901

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“Fundamental particle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fundamental%20particle. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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