Difference between Nonpolar and Particle

What is the difference between Nonpolar and Particle?

Nonpolar as an adjective is not containing a dipole while Particle as a noun is a body with very small size; a fragment.

Nonpolar

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: not containing a dipole not ionic; not dissociating into ions when dissolved in water etc

Particle

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A body with very small size; a fragment.An elementary particle or subatomic particle.A word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech, such as the word to in English infinitives or O as the vocative particle.

Example sentence: I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.

We hope you now know whether to use Nonpolar or Particle in your sentence.

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