Crossword clue
Subatomic particle crossword clue
11 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "subatomic particle", from 3 letters up to 11, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Everything below fits the clue. What separates them is length, running from 3 letters to 11, so find your row and ignore the rest.
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What this list looks like
The 8-letter row is the crowded one, holding 3 of the 11.
Setters reach for 3-letter answers constantly, and here that means ION.
The list mixes 1 synonym with 10 examples of the thing itself.
Which one does the setter mean?
Three squares is ION, and it is worth knowing that this is a slight stretch on the setter's part: an ion is a charged atom or molecule rather than a subatomic particle proper. It is still the answer you want at three letters.
How these differ
The genuine particles here divide by statistics. FERMION covers matter particles like electrons and quarks, which cannot share a state, and BOSON covers force carriers like photons, which can. DEUTERON is a nucleus rather than a particle, being a proton and neutron bound together. THERMION is an electron emitted by heat, which is how a valve works. PRION and VIRION are the odd ones out and belong to biology: a prion is a misfolded protein and a virion a complete virus particle. SCINTILLA is not physics at all but the Latin spark, meaning the smallest possible trace.
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Where these answers come from
Worth saying where this list comes from. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “subatomic particle” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "subatomic particle"?
- There is more than one. 11 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Three squares is ION, and it is worth knowing that this is a slight stretch on the setter's part: an ion is a charged atom or molecule rather than a subatomic particle proper. It is still the answer you want at three letters.
- How many letters is the answer to "subatomic particle"?
- Anything from 3 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 8. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.