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The term "fermion" is often used for everything with a half-integer spin. This is because their wave-functions are still anti-symmetric and therefore the Pauli exclusion principle applies leading to Fermi-Dirac statistics.

A lot of terms are reused for what are technically compound particles, especially since it isn't always too obvious which properties of a particle are intrinsic and which are caused by interactions.




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