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boson
vs.
fermion
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fermion
boson vs. fermion
boson
[
boh
-son ]
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noun
any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics: bosons have integral spins: 0, 1, 2, …
fermion
[
fur
-mee-on ]
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noun
any particle that obeys the exclusion principle and Fermi-Dirac statistics; fermions have spins that are half an odd integer: 1/2, 3/2, 5/2, …