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In quantum mechanics the geometrical dimension of a particles is not exactly defined. An elementary particle (like an electron or a neutrino) is represented by a probability cloud and the cloud dimension (for example the volume where the probability is higher than a certain value) depends on the type of problem. For example the cloud representing an electron bounded to a proton in an hydrogen atom is very different from the dimension of the wave packer representing a free electron, whose dimension depends on the average electron velocity.
An alternative possibility to compare different particles is to compare their mass. Since the relativistic principle of dependence of the mass on velocity holds (that is a particle increases the mass while going speeder and speeder) we have to look at a particle so called "rest mass" that for an elementary fermion like an electron is the mass as measured in a reference where the particle is still.
If we use this definition, gauge bosons like photons or gravitons, that have zero rest mass, are the particles with the smallest rest mass. Their mass however is never really zero (otherwise they would not exist) since they cannot be at rest: a photon for example in every possible reference system always moves at light speed.
Interpretation of the mass of antimatter is also interesting, but seems to me out of the scope of this brief answer.
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What is the smallest particle that makes up all matter solid or liquid or gas?
The smallest particle that makes up all matter is called an atom. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons. They combine to form molecules, which make up all substances in solid, liquid, and gas states.
Which is the smallest particle a molecule an atom a proton a neutron or a quark?
A quark is the smallest known particle, which makes up protons and neutrons found in the nucleus of atoms. This means that quarks are smaller than protons, neutrons, atoms, and molecules.
Can a particle be a single atom?
Answer: No, it takes millions, if not billions of atoms to make one grain of sugar. No. The smallest "particle" of sugar would be a molecule. The individual atoms are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, but they no longer have the properties of the sugar.
Smallest known particle that makes up protons and neutrons?
Of those three the electron is the least massive.
Which particle rarely interacts with matter?
Neutrinos are particles that rarely interact with matter. They have no electric charge and are very lightweight, which allows them to pass through ordinary matter, including our bodies, without any interaction. This property makes them difficult to detect and study.
Which is the smallest whole particle that makes up matter?
an atom
Smallest particle that makes up most kinds of matter?
atoms atoms
What is the smallest particle that makes up all matter solid or liquid or gas?
The smallest particle that makes up all matter is called an atom. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons. They combine to form molecules, which make up all substances in solid, liquid, and gas states.
What do you call the smallest particle that makes up things?
what do you call the smallest partical that makes up all things
Which is the smallest particle a molecule an atom a proton a neutron or a quark?
A quark is the smallest known particle, which makes up protons and neutrons found in the nucleus of atoms. This means that quarks are smaller than protons, neutrons, atoms, and molecules.
What is the minute separate entity that makes up all matter and is the smallest quantity of matter?
Atom is the smallest unit of matter which combines to form elements, compounds and mixtures.
What is the smallest unit of all matter that makes up an element?
An atom.
What is the smallest particle of matter of an individual element?
It's an atom because that contains a nucleus with the defining number of protons (plus some neutons) and the defining number of electrons, e.g. 12 protons/electrons makes it carbon.
What does more particles in matter do?
It makes it heavier. However, a particle is matter (please leave anti-matter and energy out of this ;)).So your question actually is: What does more matter in matter do?
Can a particle be a single atom?
Answer: No, it takes millions, if not billions of atoms to make one grain of sugar. No. The smallest "particle" of sugar would be a molecule. The individual atoms are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, but they no longer have the properties of the sugar.
What is the pieces of matter?
The smallest piece of a chemical compound is a molecule. The smallest part of an element is an atom. The smallest part of an atom (meaning of the proton, neutron and electron, which are an atom's building blocks) is the electron. Beyond that, the quark is a fundamental building block of matter, and it makes up neutrons and protons. Quarks also explain the "particle zoo" seen before the Standard Model arose to gather the phenomenon under one theoretical umbrella.
What is the smallest particle of an atom?
yes
