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English
Etymology
From anti- + proton.
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.
Synonyms
Translations
antiparticle of the proton
French
Pronunciation
Noun
antiproton m (plural antiprotons)
- (physics) antiproton
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French antiproton.
Noun
antiproton m (plural antiprotoni)
- antiproton
Declension