Particle
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Besides its common definition, particle may refer to:
In chemistry:
- Molecule
- Atom
- neutron
- Photon
- Colloidal particle in colloid chemistry, a one-phase system of two or more components
In physics:
- Subatomic particle, which may be either:
- Elementary particle, a particle of which larger particles are composed, also called a fundamental particle
- Composite particle, a bound state between several elementary particles
- Point particle, an idealized particle that does not have any volume
- See also list of particles, or for a non-technical introduction to the topic, Introduction to Particles
In other contexts:
- Particle (ecology), in marine and freshwater ecology, a small object
- Grammatical particle, in linguistics, a useful catch-all lacking a strict definition
- Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena
- Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California
- Particle Man, the hero of a song by They Might Be Giants
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