Particle (disambiguation)

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A particle in the physical sciences is a small localized object to which can be ascribed physical properties.

Particle may also refer to:

Physics

• Subatomic particle:
  • Elementary particle, or fundamental particle, a particle of which other particles are composed
  • See list of particles for more uses
• Nanoparticle, an object between 1 and 100 nanometers that behaves as a whole unit
• Self-propelled particles, a concept used in statistical physics to model swarms

Chemistry

• Colloidal particle, part of a one-phase system of two or more components where the particles aren't individually visible
  • Particle, the solid or liquid particles in an aerosol
• Suspended solids, in a liquid

Other uses

• Particle, a US HTML5 web app company in the List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple
• Particle system, in computer graphics, a technique to simulate certain fuzzy phenomena
• Point particle, or point mass, an idealization of an object with finite mass but of zero size
• Grammatical particle, a function word not assignable to any of the major word classes
• Particle (band), a 2000 jam band from Los Angeles, California
• Particle (ecology), in marine and freshwater ecology, a small object
• Particle (film), a 2012 Turkish film
• Atmospheric particulate matter, in the areas of atmospheric physics and air pollution

See also

• Granular material
• Part (disambiguation)
• Particle size (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "particle"
• All pages with titles containing "particle"

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