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muons

muons is the plural of muon.

Meaning of muon

Noun

muon (plural muons)

  1. An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater.
    • The μ-meson of Powell (called here muon) is instead a disintegration product of the pion, only weakly linked to the nucleons and therefore of little importance in the explanation of nuclear forces.1951, Enrico Fermi, Elementary Particles

Questions about muons

What is muons the plural of?
Muons is the plural of muon.

Words near muons in the dictionary

  1. muonium
  2. muoniums
  3. muonless
  4. muonlike
  5. muononium
  6. muons
  7. MUP
  8. mupamine
  9. Muphrid
  10. Muphry's law
  11. Muping

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