What is "beta particles"

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Yet she was also aware that the Corviki audience understood the conflict of the two warring energy-groups, of the desire of the two new, but not shallow, entities to combine into a new force group, of the energy-stoking of herself as the Nurse, of the brilliant light of beta particles exchanged by the two new entities, swearing neuron coalitions and, finally, forced to expend the vital energy of their cores to bring the warring groups to the realization that coexistence was possible on their energy level.

Now your standard engine, said Paul, who had crawled back in through a hole beneath Jims back fence, your standard warp-drive engine, functions through the ionization of beta particles creating a positronic catalyst, which bombards the isotope with gamma radiation, giving rise to galvanic variations and the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic antimatter.

First, your skin will stop alpha particles and a page of a newspaper or your clothing will stop beta particles.

The protons and electrons in an atom oughta be about equal for it to be stable, but these were shootin' off electrons, or beta particles, and givin' off something like powerful x-rays, called gamma rays, and things like that.

The beta particles would arrive at any moment, the protons, within hours, and they bore his death.

The phantasm is bombarded by Beta particles which disintegrate the essential protein basis for–.

The suit could protect him against alpha and beta particles, but any gamma radiation in the vicinity-induced, say, by high-energy neutrons irradiating this enormous mass of twisted, heat-blackened metal before him-would be sleeting right through his suits slender defenses.

Plasma photon ionizers utilizing a cross-polarization of beta particles to bombard an inter-rositor through the medium of a sub-atomic converter?