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Antineutrino vs Neutrino - What's the difference?

antineutrino | neutrino |

Neutrino is a related term of antineutrino.



As nouns the difference between antineutrino and neutrino

is that antineutrino is the antiparticle of the neutrino while neutrino is an elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.

antineutrino

English

Noun

(wikipedia antineutrino) (en noun)
  • (physics) the antiparticle of the neutrino
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    neutrino

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.
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  • , year=2011 , date=September 22 , author=Nick Collins , title=Speed of light 'broken' by scientists , work=Daily Telegraph citation , page= , passage=But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos , a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometres) per second.}}