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A particle of light
photon
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The man who the constant 6.63x10^-34 is attributed to
planck
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The process which produces matter from photons
pair production
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What happens to a positron shortly after production
annihilation
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The minimum energy a particle can possess
rest energy
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The exchange particle of the strong nuclear force
pions
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Another word for "exchange particles"
bosons
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The lepton product of electron capture
neutrino
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The hadron with the quark structure udd
neutron
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The most stable baryon
proton
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The hadron family with a quark-antiquark
mesons
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The strange meson
kaon
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The force that makes beta decay occur
weak nuclear
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The weakest fundamental force
gravitation
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The smallest meson
pion
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The family that the muon belongs to
lepton
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The particles that hadrons are made up of
quarks
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Matter with the opposite charge to normal matter
antimatter
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A fundamental quantity which is always conserved
charge
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The antiparticle of the electron
positron
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The name given to the particles emitted from a metal surface in the photoelectric effect
photoelectrons
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"The minimum amount of energy needed to liberate an electron from the surface of a metal"
work function
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The photon type given off when mercury atoms deexcite
ultraviolet
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The process whereby an electron is promoted to a higher energy level
excitation
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The minimum energy state an atom can be in
ground state
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The _____ wavelength: the wavelength given to particles
de broglie
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The substance that electrons are passed through to produce a diffraction pattern
graphene
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The unit of energy equal to 1.6x10^-19 J
electron volt
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The process which produces matter from photons

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