noun
- a subatomic particle with no electric charge and very little mass that travels at nearly the speed of light
Usage: physics
Examples
- Scientists detected neutrinos from the sun using underground detectors.
- Billions of neutrinos pass through your body every second without you noticing.
- The neutrino was first proposed to explain missing energy in radioactive decay.
- Neutrino astronomy allows us to study distant cosmic events.
- The detector was built deep underground to shield it from other particles while capturing neutrinos.
- Neutrinos interact so weakly with matter that they can travel through the entire Earth.