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neutrino

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"Nearly massless particle"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /njuːˈtɹiːnəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted einnortuStarts with NEnds with O1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an elementary, electrically neutral particle with a very small mass

Word origin

Coined by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1933 from neutron + the Italian diminutive suffix -ino; by surface analysis, neutr(o)- + -ino.

Used in a sentence

  • But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometres) per second.

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