Crossword-Solution: POSITRON 8 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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POSITRON anagram PORTIONS, SORPTION, TOPRISON

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Antiparticle first observed in 1929 1 answer
particle with same mass as electron but positive charge 1 answer
The "P" in PET scan 1 answer
It's very tiny portions, distributed all around (8) 1 answer
First antiparticle discovered 1 answer
Electron's antiparticle 1 answer
Correct, sport - ion is a particle 1 answer
Certain antiparticle 1 answer
Beta decay emission, sometimes 1 answer
Antielectron 1 answer
ANTIPARTICLE, the first discovered 1 answer
Basic particle 4 answers
NUCLEAR particle 6 answers
Physics particle 10 answers
BETA DECAY EMISSION, SOME 10 answers
ATOMIC particle 21 answers
Sub-atomic particle 24 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POSITRON (5)

For our own convenience we retained a small winding path through this barrier, concealing and defending it with piles of branches and thorns, and also we contrived a light drawbridge over the stream, so that we rendered the pass altogether a very strong positron, should we ever have to act on the defensive.
Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss 2003
Referring to the so-called positron, the positive particle regarded as the polar opposite of the negative electron, he remarks: 'A positron is a hole from which an electron has been removed; it is a bung-hole which would be evened up with its surroundings if an electron were inserted.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs 2004
During my last year at the University, I had a part-time paid job programming the big positron-neutrino-photon computer in the astrophysics department.
Graveyard of Dreams Henry Beam Piper 2006
Past Sulfur 32, there was a lot of positron emission as the nuclei fought to increase the number of neutrons to maintain a stable balance.
The Bramble Bush Gordon Randall Garrett 2007
The theory was advanced by Feynman that annihilation of an electron-positron pair upon contact might be, not actual annihilation, but a 'time reversal' of the electron.
Z Charles L. Fontenay 2019

Quotes with POSITRON (2)

Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks (explaining our penchant for baseball). A cavewoman thinking too hard about what matter is ultimately made of might fail to notice the tiger sneaking up behind and get cleaned right out of the gene pool. Darwin’s theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond t…
Max Tegmark Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
Floyd Skloot
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1994–2025).