Talk:composite particle
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Rfv-sense: any particle that is not an elementary particle, namely hadrons, atomic nuclei, atoms and molecules. This definition is consistent with en-Wikipedia article List_of_particles#Composite_particles but not with the rest of dictionaries, which are of the opinion that this term refers to subatomic particles [1]][[2]]. The only exceptions that I could find are the dictionaries which cite Wiktionary as source, e.g. [3]. Thus, it appears to me, we should drop anything bigger than atomic nuclei from the list after the word "namely". We might also want to add an entry for composite particle board, because it is not board made of composite particles, but this is another business. --Hekaheka (talk) 16:54, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
- No comments within several weeks: I guess I'm right and will go ahead with editing the definition. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:43, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
- I don't agree with your thought about composite particle board (= composite + particle board). As with any MWE using polysemous components, there are multiple construals possible, eg, in displaying or tallying results of research on composite particles, one might use a composite particle + board. For that matter, combining several display boards of research on particles, the result might be a composite + particle + board. DCDuring TALK 15:37, 29 April 2015 (UTC)