	Site Map \| FAQ in Daily Almanac for Jul 26, 2008 Search White Pages
Skip Navigation Home 2008 Summer Olympics Atlas Encyclopedia Dictionary Thesaurus Features Quizzes Timelines Countries Campaign 2008

Fact Monster Kid's reference,
games, quizzes

elementary particles

elementary particles, the most basic physical constituents of the universe.

Sections in this article:

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

More on elementary particles from Infoplease:

elementary particles - particles, elementary: particles, elementary: see elementary particles.
elementary particles: The Discovery of Elementary Particles - The Discovery of Elementary Particles The first subatomic particle to be discovered was the ...
elementary particles: Classification of Elementary Particles - Classification of Elementary Particles Two types of statistics are used to describe elementary ...
Elementary Particles (table) - Elementary Particles Leptons Particle Symbol Mass (MeV/c2) Electric Charge electron e- 0.511 -1 ...
Elementary Particles (Elementarteilchen) - Starring Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Ulmen, Martina Gedeck, Franka Potente, Nina Hoss

See more Encyclopedia articles on: Physics

Premium Partner Content

HighBeam Research

Related content from HighBeam Research on: elementary particles

Utopian yearnings, dystopian thoughts: Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles and the problem of scientific communitarianism.(Michel...... (College Literature)

Thirty unsolved problems in the physics of elementary particles. (Progress in Physics)

Elementary Particles: Building Blocks of Matter.(Brief Article)(Book Review) (SciTech Book News)

Stings and webs: tying black holes to elementary particles in string theory. (Science News)

The Elementary Particles.(Movie Review) (Variety)

A snake-in-the-ring keeps spins aligned. (accelerating elementary particles) (Science News)

Models for quarks and elementary particles--Part II: what is mass?(Report) (Progress in Physics)

Models for quarks and elementary particles--Part I: what is a quark?(Report) (Progress in Physics)

Elementary Particles - TIME (Time Magazine)

Beyond the Z: the latest generation of high-powered particle accelerators has produced no real surprises. What's next? (Science News)

Additional search results provided by HighBeam Research, LLC. © Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.

Infoplease Tools

Career Center

College Center

© 2000–2008 Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease •
RSS •
About •
Contact •
Link to Us •
Advertise with Infoplease •
Terms of Use •
Privacy •
Related sites:
- Family Education •
- TeacherVision