Neutrons
"Neutrons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Electrically neutral elementary particles found in all atomic nuclei except light hydrogen; the mass is equal to that of the proton and electron combined and they are unstable when isolated from the nucleus, undergoing beta decay. Slow, thermal, epithermal, and fast neutrons refer to the energy levels with which the neutrons are ejected from heavier nuclei during their decay.
| Descriptor ID |
D009502
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.249.645
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Neutrons" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.