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composite particle

A subatomic particle that is composed of two or more elementary particles. The protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom are composite particles, as they are composed of quarks; electrons orbiting the nucleus are not composite particles. See also elementary particle subatomic particle

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The composite particle also contains two up quarks and two down quarks--the same ones found in ordinary matter.

First five-quark particle turns up. (Wild Bunch) by Weiss, P. / Science News

Physicists have long suspected, for instance, that electrons can clump into composite particles, known as quasiparticles, each with a third or less of the electric charge of a single electron.

New shards of electron charge found by Science News

The April 1995 issue of Rubber World (page 16) mistakenly reported that Composite Particles had been awarded a $6.

Correction by Rubber World

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