Icon class icon_class fas fa-quote-left icon_class_computed fas fa-quote-left Related content Spin for elementary particles and composite particles Source Wikipedia Copyright information Text from Wikipedia and Wiktionary web pages quoted for educational purposes is subject to the Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence Snippet kind INFO Previous snippet Full quote a helium atom in the ground state has spin 0 and behaves like a boson, even though the quarks and electrons which make it up are all fermions. URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(physics) Next snippet Related snippets In quantum mechanics and particle physics, spin is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, composite particles (hadrons), and atomic nuclei. Related snippets (backlinks) Visit also Visit also (backlinks) Flags