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The atomic number of an element is determined by the number of these in one atom of it protons $400 DJ SCIENCE 2022-01-04 #8547
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew, at Harvard University's Historical Scientific Instruments, shows a console.) From 1947 to 2002, this control console was at the Harvard cyclotron lab for pioneering research now used to treat cancer; the surrounding healthy tissue is relatively undamaged, but the cancer cells are destroyed by irradiation with these positive particles protons $800 J INSTRUMENTAL IN SCIENCE 2015-03-31 #7037
Mass number is defined as the number of neutrons & these particles in an atom's nucleus protons $800 DJ SCIENCE 2008-07-04 #5500
(Kelly of the Clue Crew rubs a balloon on her hair in the Jeopardy!science lab.) Rubbing a balloon builds up electrons that then attract this type of particle in ametal can, from the Greek for "first" protons $1,600 DJ SCIENCE 2008-01-10 #5374
These particles studied by astroparticle physics are the only ones in the nuclei of hydrogen atoms protons DD $2,600 DJ CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE 2007-05-07 #5226
Mass number is defined as the number of neutrons & these particles in an atom's nucleus Protons $600 DJ SCIENCE 1999-04-01 #3364
The cyclotron Ernest Lawrence invented in 1932 was designed to accelerate these particles protons $1,000 DJ PHYSICAL SCIENCE 1990-02-12 #1261
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