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What the diffrence between a neutron and a neutrino?

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I've been reading some cool books but any ways whats the diffrence?

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  1. Neutrons are located in the nucleus of an atom, have a neutral charge and bind with protons by what is called "strong force". Neutrinos are elementary particles that travel close to the speed of light, lack an electric charge, are able to pass through ordinary matter almost undisturbed and are thus extremely difficult to detect.  They are usually denoted by the Greek letter  (nu).Neutrinos are similar to electrons, but neutrinos do not carry electric charge.Nuclear forces treat electrons and neutrinos identically; neither participate in the strong nuclear force, but both participate equally in the weak nuclear force.  Natural sources of neutrinos include the radioactive decay of primordial elements within the earth, which generate a large flux of low-energy electron-anti-neutrinos. Calculations show that about 2 percent of the sun's energy is carried away by neutrinos produced in fusion reactions there. Supernovae too are predominantly a neutrino phenomenon, because neutrinos are the only particles that can penetrate the very dense material produced in a collapsing star; only a small fraction of the available energy is converted to light. It is possible that a large fraction of the dark matter of the universe consists of primordial, Big Bang neutrinos.

      


  2. A neutron is one of the basic units in an atom, the other is the proton. The neutron is slightly heavier than the proton. A neutrino is so tiny it can pass through miles of solid matter without colliding with any part of the matter it passes through. Up to recent times it was thought by science that the neutrino had no mass, but recent experiments have concluded that it has a very small mass.  

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