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HTML

<ul>
    <li id='alpha'>Alpha</li>
    <li id='gamma' class='particle'>Gamma</li>
    <li id='xray' class='particle'>Xray</li>
    <li id='beta'>Beta</li>
</ul>

JavaScript

var particles = $('.particle');
$('li').not(particles).css('color','red')