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99 relations: Ab initio methods (nuclear physics), Alpha particle, Atom, Atomic orbital, Atomic physics, Baryon, Beta decay, Binding energy, Bismuth-209, Bohr radius, Borromean nucleus, Bose–Einstein condensate, Boson, Cambridge University Press, Charge radius, Chemical element, Chiral perturbation theory, Coulomb's law, Deuterium, Dmitri Ivanenko, Electron, Ernest Marsden, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, Even and odd atomic nuclei, Femtometre, Fermion, Gamma ray, Giant resonance, Gilbert N. Lewis, Hadron, Halo nucleus, Hans Geiger, Helium-3, Helium-4, Hydrogen, Hypernucleus, Hyperon, Interacting boson model, Isospin, Isotope, Isotopes of boron, Isotopes of lead, Isotopes of lithium, J. J. Thomson, James Rainwater, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Liquid helium, List of particles, Magic number (physics), ... Expand index (49 more) »
- Atoms
- Electron
- Proton
- Radiochemistry
- Subatomic particles
Ab initio methods (nuclear physics)
In nuclear physics, ab initio methods seek to describe the atomic nucleus from the bottom up by solving the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation for all constituent nucleons and the forces between them. Atomic nucleus and ab initio methods (nuclear physics) are nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Ab initio methods (nuclear physics)
Alpha particle
Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus.
See Atomic nucleus and Alpha particle
Atom
Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements. Atomic nucleus and Atom are atoms.
Atomic orbital
In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital is a function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom.
See Atomic nucleus and Atomic orbital
Atomic physics
Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus.
See Atomic nucleus and Atomic physics
Baryon
In particle physics, a baryon is a type of composite subatomic particle, including the proton and the neutron, that contains an odd number of valence quarks, conventionally three.
Beta decay
In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron), transforming into an isobar of that nuclide. Atomic nucleus and beta decay are nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Beta decay
Binding energy
In physics and chemistry, binding energy is the smallest amount of energy required to remove a particle from a system of particles or to disassemble a system of particles into individual parts. Atomic nucleus and binding energy are nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Binding energy
Bismuth-209
Bismuth-209 (Bi) is an isotope of bismuth, with the longest known half-life of any radioisotope that undergoes α-decay (alpha decay).
See Atomic nucleus and Bismuth-209
Bohr radius
The Bohr radius is a physical constant, approximately equal to the most probable distance between the nucleus and the electron in a hydrogen atom in its ground state.
See Atomic nucleus and Bohr radius
Borromean nucleus
A Borromean nucleus is an atomic nucleus comprising three bound components in which any subsystem of two components is unbound. Atomic nucleus and Borromean nucleus are nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Borromean nucleus
Bose–Einstein condensate
In condensed matter physics, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons at very low densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (−273.15 °C or −459.67 °F or 0 K).
See Atomic nucleus and Bose–Einstein condensate
Boson
In particle physics, a boson is a subatomic particle whose spin quantum number has an integer value (0, 1, 2,...). Bosons form one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particle, the other being fermions, which have odd half-integer spin (...). Every observed subatomic particle is either a boson or a fermion.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Charge radius
The rms charge radius is a measure of the size of an atomic nucleus, particularly the proton distribution. Atomic nucleus and charge radius are nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Charge radius
Chemical element
A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions.
See Atomic nucleus and Chemical element
Chiral perturbation theory
Chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) is an effective field theory constructed with a Lagrangian consistent with the (approximate) chiral symmetry of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), as well as the other symmetries of parity and charge conjugation.
See Atomic nucleus and Chiral perturbation theory
Coulomb's law
Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically charged particles at rest.
See Atomic nucleus and Coulomb's law
Deuterium
Deuterium (hydrogen-2, symbol H or D, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other is protium, or hydrogen-1).
See Atomic nucleus and Deuterium
Dmitri Ivanenko
Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko (Дмитро́ Дми́трович Іване́нко, Дми́трий Дми́триевич Иване́нко; July 29, 1904 – December 30, 1994) was a Soviet theoretical physicist of Ukrainian origin who made great contributions to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory.
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Electron
The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.
See Atomic nucleus and Electron
Ernest Marsden
Sir Ernest Marsden (19 February 1889 – 15 December 1970) was an English-New Zealand physicist.
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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.
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Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or, was a Nobel Prize–winning Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory.
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Even and odd atomic nuclei
In nuclear physics, properties of a nucleus depend on evenness or oddness of its atomic number (proton number) Z, neutron number N and, consequently, of their sum, the mass number A. Most importantly, oddness of both Z and N tends to lower the nuclear binding energy, making odd nuclei generally less stable. Atomic nucleus and even and odd atomic nuclei are nuclear physics.
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Femtometre
The femtometre (American spelling femtometer), symbol fm, (derived from the Danish and Norwegian word femten 'fifteen', lit) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10−15 metres, which means a quadrillionth of one metre.
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Fermion
In particle physics, a fermion is a particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics.
See Atomic nucleus and Fermion
Gamma ray
A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. Atomic nucleus and gamma ray are nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Gamma ray
Giant resonance
In nuclear physics, giant resonance is a high-frequency collective excitation of atomic nuclei, as a property of many-body quantum systems. Atomic nucleus and giant resonance are nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Giant resonance
Gilbert N. Lewis
Gilbert Newton Lewis (October 23 or October 25, 1875 – March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.
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Hadron
In particle physics, a hadron is a composite subatomic particle made of two or more quarks held together by the strong interaction. Atomic nucleus and hadron are nuclear physics.
Halo nucleus
In nuclear physics, an atomic nucleus is called a halo nucleus or is said to have a nuclear halo when it has a core nucleus surrounded by a "halo" of orbiting protons or neutrons, which makes the radius of the nucleus appreciably larger than that predicted by the liquid drop model. Atomic nucleus and halo nucleus are nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Halo nucleus
Hans Geiger
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist.
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Helium-3
Helium-3 (3He see also helion) is a light, stable isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron.
See Atomic nucleus and Helium-3
Helium-4
Helium-4 is a stable isotope of the element helium.
See Atomic nucleus and Helium-4
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
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Hypernucleus
A hypernucleus is similar to a conventional atomic nucleus, but contains at least one hyperon in addition to the normal protons and neutrons. Atomic nucleus and hypernucleus are nuclear physics.
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Hyperon
In particle physics, a hyperon is any baryon containing one or more strange quarks, but no charm, bottom, or top quark.
See Atomic nucleus and Hyperon
Interacting boson model
The interacting boson model (IBM) is a model in nuclear physics in which nucleons (protons or neutrons) pair up, essentially acting as a single particle with boson properties, with integral spin of either 2 (d-boson) or 0 (s-boson). Atomic nucleus and interacting boson model are nuclear physics.
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Isospin
In nuclear physics and particle physics, isospin (I) is a quantum number related to the up- and down quark content of the particle. Atomic nucleus and isospin are nuclear physics.
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Isotope
Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element. Atomic nucleus and Isotope are nuclear physics.
See Atomic nucleus and Isotope
Isotopes of boron
Boron (5B) naturally occurs as isotopes and, the latter of which makes up about 80% of natural boron.
See Atomic nucleus and Isotopes of boron
Isotopes of lead
Lead (82Pb) has four observationally stable isotopes: 204Pb, 206Pb, 207Pb, 208Pb.
See Atomic nucleus and Isotopes of lead
Isotopes of lithium
Naturally occurring lithium (3Li) is composed of two stable isotopes, lithium-6 (6Li) and lithium-7 (7Li), with the latter being far more abundant on Earth.
See Atomic nucleus and Isotopes of lithium
J. J. Thomson
Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
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James Rainwater
Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 – May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
The Journal of the American Chemical Society (also known as JACS) is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1879 by the American Chemical Society.
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Liquid helium
Liquid helium is a physical state of helium at very low temperatures at standard atmospheric pressures.
See Atomic nucleus and Liquid helium
List of particles
This is a list of known and hypothesized particles. Atomic nucleus and list of particles are subatomic particles.
See Atomic nucleus and List of particles
Magic number (physics)
In nuclear physics, a magic number is a number of nucleons (either protons or neutrons, separately) such that they are arranged into complete shells within the atomic nucleus.
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Many-body problem
The many-body problem is a general name for a vast category of physical problems pertaining to the properties of microscopic systems made of many interacting particles.
See Atomic nucleus and Many-body problem
Mass
Mass is an intrinsic property of a body.
Mass number
The mass number (symbol A, from the German word: Atomgewicht, "atomic weight"), also called atomic mass number or nucleon number, is the total number of protons and neutrons (together known as nucleons) in an atomic nucleus. Atomic nucleus and mass number are nuclear chemistry.
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
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Millisecond
A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second or 1000 microseconds.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Neutron
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Neutronium
Neutronium (or neutrium, or neutrite) is a hypothetical substance made purely of neutrons.
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Nuclear force
The nuclear force (or nucleon–nucleon interaction, residual strong force, or, historically, strong nuclear force) is a force that acts between hadrons, most commonly observed between protons and neutrons of atoms. Atomic nucleus and nuclear force are nuclear physics.
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Nuclear medicine
Nuclear medicine, or nucleology, is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter.
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Nuclear structure
Understanding the structure of the atomic nucleus is one of the central challenges in nuclear physics. Atomic nucleus and nuclear structure are nuclear physics.
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Nucleon
In physics and chemistry, a nucleon is either a proton or a neutron, considered in its role as a component of an atomic nucleus.
See Atomic nucleus and Nucleon
Particle physics
Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation.
See Atomic nucleus and Particle physics
Pauli exclusion principle
In quantum mechanics, the Pauli exclusion principle states that two or more identical particles with half-integer spins (i.e. fermions) cannot simultaneously occupy the same quantum state within a system that obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.
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Peach
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China.
Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics)
In quantum mechanics, perturbation theory is a set of approximation schemes directly related to mathematical perturbation for describing a complicated quantum system in terms of a simpler one.
See Atomic nucleus and Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics)
Phase transition
In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.
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Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society.
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Plum pudding model
The now obsolete plum pudding model was the first scientific model of the atom with internal structure. Atomic nucleus and plum pudding model are atoms and electron.
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Promethium
Promethium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pm and atomic number 61.
See Atomic nucleus and Promethium
Proton
A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol, H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 e (elementary charge).
Quantum chromodynamics
In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the study of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons.
See Atomic nucleus and Quantum chromodynamics
Quantum number
In quantum physics and chemistry, quantum numbers are quantities that characterize the possible states of the system.
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Quark
A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.
Radioactive decay
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.
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Rutgers University
Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.
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Rutherford scattering experiments
The Rutherford scattering experiments were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists learned that every atom has a nucleus where all of its positive charge and most of its mass is concentrated.
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Semi-empirical mass formula
In nuclear physics, the semi-empirical mass formula (SEMF) (sometimes also called the Weizsäcker formula, Bethe–Weizsäcker formula, or Bethe–Weizsäcker mass formula to distinguish it from the Bethe–Weizsäcker process) is used to approximate the mass of an atomic nucleus from its number of protons and neutrons. Atomic nucleus and semi-empirical mass formula are nuclear chemistry, nuclear physics and Radiochemistry.
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Shape of the atomic nucleus
The shape of the atomic nucleus depends on the variety of factors related to the size and shape of its nucleon constituents and the nuclear force holding them together.
See Atomic nucleus and Shape of the atomic nucleus
Spheroid
A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Standard Model
The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions – excluding gravity) in the universe and classifying all known elementary particles.
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Strangeness
In particle physics, strangeness (symbol S) is a property of particles, expressed as a quantum number, for describing decay of particles in strong and electromagnetic interactions which occur in a short period of time.
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Strong interaction
In nuclear physics and particle physics, the strong interaction, also called the strong force or strong nuclear force, is a fundamental interaction that confines quarks into protons, neutrons, and other hadron particles. Atomic nucleus and strong interaction are nuclear physics.
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Superfluidity
Superfluidity is the characteristic property of a fluid with zero viscosity which therefore flows without any loss of kinetic energy.
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Table of nuclides
A table or chart of nuclides is a two-dimensional graph of isotopes of the elements, in which one axis represents the number of neutrons (symbol N) and the other represents the number of protons (atomic number, symbol Z) in the atomic nucleus.
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Technetium
Technetium is a chemical element; it has symbol Tc and atomic number 43.
See Atomic nucleus and Technetium
Tin
Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn and atomic number 50.
Tritium
Tritium or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with half-life ~12.3 years. Atomic nucleus and Tritium are Radiochemistry.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.
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Uranium-238
Uranium-238 (238U or U-238) is the most common isotope of uranium found in nature, with a relative abundance of 99%.
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Van der Waals force
In molecular physics and chemistry, the van der Waals force (sometimes van de Waals' force) is a distance-dependent interaction between atoms or molecules.
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Wave function
In quantum physics, a wave function (or wavefunction) is a mathematical description of the quantum state of an isolated quantum system.
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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics.
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Yukawa potential
In particle, atomic and condensed matter physics, a Yukawa potential (also called a screened Coulomb potential) is a potential named after the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa.
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Zeitschrift für Physik
Zeitschrift für Physik (English: Journal for Physics) is a defunct series of German peer-reviewed physics journals established in 1920 by Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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See also
Atoms
- 1s Slater-type function
- Atom
- Atomic fountain
- Atomic mass
- Atomic nucleus
- Atomic number
- Atomic radius
- BASIC Atom
- Chemical elements
- Cubical atom
- Electron configurations of the elements (data page)
- Exotic atoms
- Helium atom
- Hollow atom
- Hydrogen atom
- Hydrogen-like atom
- Lithium atom
- Manipulation of atoms by optical field
- Molecules
- Monolayers
- Nuclear density
- Oscillator strength
- PKA (irradiation)
- Plum pudding model
- Quantum defect
- Rydberg atom
- Subatomic particles
- Superatom
- Two-electron atom
- Ultracold atom
Electron
- Atomic nucleus
- Bohr model of the chemical bond
- Classical electron radius
- Delta ray
- Dirac membrane
- Ecton (physics)
- Electride
- Electron
- Electron beam
- Electron bubble
- Electron density
- Electron diffraction
- Electron excitation
- Electron mass
- Electron microscopy
- Electron multiplier
- Electron precipitation
- Electron scattering
- Electron shell
- Electronic correlation
- Electronvolt
- Free electron model
- Independent electron approximation
- Inner sphere electron transfer
- Kohn–Sham equations
- Mixed-valence complex
- One-electron universe
- Outer sphere electron transfer
- Paser
- Phonon drag
- Photoelectrochemical process
- Plum pudding model
- Positron
- Positron emission
- Prehydrated electrons
- Proton-to-electron mass ratio
- Relativistic runaway electron avalanche
- Scattering amplitude
- Secondary emission
- Thomson problem
- Townsend discharge
Proton
- Antiproton
- Atomic nucleus
- Eddington number
- High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell
- Hydron (chemistry)
- Nucleon magnetic moment
- P-process
- Proton
- Proton capture
- Proton computed tomography
- Proton decay
- Proton emission
- Proton nuclear magnetic resonance
- Proton pump
- Proton radius puzzle
- Proton spin crisis
- Proton therapy
- Proton–proton chain
- Proton-coupled electron transfer
- Proton-exchange membrane
- Proton-exchange membrane fuel cell
- Proton-to-electron mass ratio
- Proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry
- Protonium
- Protonophore
- Rp-process
Radiochemistry
- Applied Radiochemistry
- Atomic nucleus
- Atomic trap trace analysis
- Bertram Boltwood
- Coprecipitation
- Fajans–Paneth–Hahn Law
- Fluorescence
- Gregorio Baro
- Iqbal Hussain Qureshi
- Jason S. Lewis
- Laboratory B
- Neil Vasdev
- Peter J. H. Scott
- Radioactive displacement law of Fajans and Soddy
- Radiochemistry
- Radiopharmaceutical
- Resonance fluorescence
- Robert Guillaumont
- Satoyasu Iimori
- Semi-empirical mass formula
- Technetium-99
- Technetium-99m
- Thomas Albrecht-Schönzart
- Tritium
- Walter Seelmann-Eggebert
Subatomic particles
- Antiparticle
- Atomic nucleus
- Bosons
- Elementary particle
- Elementary particles
- Exotic atoms
- Fermions
- HZE ion
- Hadrons
- Hypothetical particles
- List of particles
- Pomeron
- Subatomic particle
- Subatomic scale
- Tachyons
- Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
- V particle
References
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