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Plural
fermions
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tiny particles that make up matter and have a property called spin, like the building blocks of atoms
- Electrons, which orbit the nucleus of an atom, are examples of fermions.
- Fermions include both quarks and leptons, which together form the basic constituents of matter.
- Fermions follow specific rules called Fermi-Dirac statistics, governing how they can occupy quantum states.
- Fermions play a crucial role in understanding the behavior of particles within the framework of quantum mechanics.
- The Standard Model of particle physics classifies elementary particles into fermions and bosons, with fermions being the basic building blocks of matter.