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antiprotons

antiprotons is the plural of antiproton.

Meaning of antiproton

Noun

antiproton (plural antiprotons)

  1. The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
    • 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.2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146
    Synonyms:
    pbar

Questions about antiprotons

What is antiprotons the plural of?
Antiprotons is the plural of antiproton.

Words near antiprotons in the dictionary

  1. antiprotist
  2. antiprotists
  3. antiproton
  4. antiprotonic
  5. antiprotonic helium
  6. antiprotons
  7. antiprotozoal
  8. antiprotozoals
  9. antiprotozoan
  10. antiproverb
  11. antiproverbs

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