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So Pauli proposed what he described as a “desperate remedy”: a new type of small, chargeless fundamental particle that was emitted alongside the electrons and accounted for the missing energy.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2022

These tiny, chargeless specks stream out of the sun, as well as supernovae and other cosmic events, and about a trillion of them pass through your hand each second.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2021

Being chargeless, even low-energy neutrons can strike a nucleus and be absorbed once they feel the attractive nuclear force.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

These are called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, and would also be chargeless, thus interacting negligibly with normal matter, except through gravitation.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

He knew that Ernest himself was aware of the potency—and therefore the hazards—of neutrons, for the capacity of the chargeless particles to penetrate human tissue had been a frequent topic of their correspondence.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik