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leptonization

leptonization noun: the creation of leptons (in stars etc).

Noun

leptonization (uncountable)

  1. The creation of leptons (in stars etc)
    • Neutrino cooling in the dense midplane of the disk is stronger when using MC transport, leading to a globally higher cooling rate by a factor of a few and a larger leptonization rate by an order of magnitude.2015, S. Richers, D. Kasen, Evan O'Connor, Rodrigo Fernandez, Christian Ott, “Monte Carlo Neutrino Transport Through Remnant Disks from Neutron Star Mergers”, in arXiv

Origin of leptonization

From lepton + -ization.

Words formed from leptonization

Questions about leptonization

What does leptonization mean?
Leptonization means the creation of leptons (in stars etc).
What part of speech is leptonization?
Leptonization is a noun.

Words near leptonization in the dictionary

  1. leptonetids
  2. leptonic
  3. leptonically
  4. leptonium
  5. leptoniums
  6. leptonization
  7. leptonless
  8. leptonlike
  9. leptons
  10. leptopellic
  11. leptophilic

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