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antiproton
antiproton
See also: antipróton
English
Noun
antiproton (plural antiprotons)
- (physics) The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
- 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
- There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
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Translations
antiparticle of the proton
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