| Abstract from DBPedia | In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object to which can be ascribed several physical or chemical properties, such as volume, density, or mass. They vary greatly in size or quantity, from subatomic particles like the electron, to microscopic particles like atoms and molecules, to macroscopic particles like powders and other granular materials. Particles can also be used to create scientific models of even larger objects depending on their density, such as humans moving in a crowd or celestial bodies in motion. The term particle is rather general in meaning, and is refined as needed by various scientific fields. Anything that is composed of particles may be referred to as being particulate. However, the noun particulate is most frequently used to refer to pollutants in the Earth's atmosphere, which are a suspension of unconnected particles, rather than a connected particle aggregation.粒子（りゅうし、英: particle）は、比較的小さな物体の総称である。大きさの基準は対象によって異なり、また形状などの詳細はその対象によって様々である。特に細かいものを指す微粒子といった語もある。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Particle) |
