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Atomic force microscope The atomic force microscope or AFM is an instrument for ...	Atomic nucleus The nucleus of atoms is formed of protons and neutrons. The ...
Atomic number The atomic number is the number of protons in a nucleus and ...	Attosecond An attosecond is 10-18 seconds.
Avogadro Count Avogadro (1776-1846) Italian chemist - Avogadro's law: ...	Avogadro number The Avogadro number is the number of atoms in 12 g of carbon ...
Avogadro's law Under the same temperature and pressure conditions, equal ...	Axion The axion is a hypothetical particle devised by ...
B0 meson A B0 meson is one formed of a d quark and a bantiquark. The ...	BaBar BaBar is a physics experiment on elementary particles at the ...
Bar The bar is the unit of pressure equal to 105 pascals. Normal ...	Baryon Baryon is the generic name for particles of a mass equal to ...
Becquerel The becquerel is the international legal (SI) unit of ...	Betavoltaic Betavoltaic batteries are electricity generators developed ...
Birefringence Birefringence is the optical property of anisotropic (or ...	Black body In physics, a black body is any body capable of completely ...
Bolometer A bolometer is a sensor used to measure the amount of energy ...	Bonding Bonding refers to surface treatments applied to reinforcing ...
Bose-Einstein Condensate Bose-Einstein condensate is a special state that can occur ...	Boson A boson is a particle with integer spin; it obeys ...