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Convention for Specifying Particle Species
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This convention is for standardizing the names of particle species.

SubAtomic Particle Names
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- Subatomic particle names:
- antimuon
- antiproton
- bottom
- charm-antiquark
- charm-quark
- deuteron
- down-antiquark
- down-quark
- electron
- electron-neutrino
- gluon
- graviton
- higgs-boson
- muon
- muon-neutrino
- neutron
- photon
- pion
- positron
- proton
- strange-antiquark
- strange-quark
- tao-antiquark
- tao-quark
- tao-neutrino
- top-antiquark
- top-quark
- up-antiquark
- up-quark
- w-boson
- z-boson


Names for Atoms and Molecules
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- Atoms and molecules: Use standard chemical notation. Eg: "H20". Isotopes are denoted by a pound symbol "#" followed by the isotopic number followed by the chemical symbol. Eg: "#3He" for Helium-3.
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maybe that's a stupid question, but is there some kind of ISO naming already for this on which we can rely on?

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I looked but I could not find anything unfortunately.

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I see, thanks for checking.
And something from PDG (the particle data group), maybe? Just that we don't miss something that already defines spellings.

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(besides that insecurity of mine about accidentally re-inventing something, I like the proposed spellings)

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I had looked at the PDG as well without luck.