Microbiology

• prion

  (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid...

• virino

  (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and...

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• elementary particle

  (physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents...

• fermion

  Any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion pr...

• ion

  A particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group...

• boson

  Any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all...

• virion

  (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some...

• superstring

  A hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time.

• thermion

  An electrically charged particle (electron or ion) emitted by a substance at a high te...

• deuteron

  The nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding...

• magnetic monopole

  A hypothetical particle with a single magnetic pole instead of the usual two.

• beta particle

  A high-speed electron or positron emitted in the decay of a radioactive isotope.

• micelle

  An electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring...

• alpha particle

  A positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom; emitted from...

• scintilla

  A sparkling glittering particle.