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protophobic

protophobic adjective: having a low Lewis basicity.

Adjective

protophobic (comparative more protophobic, superlative most protophobic)

  1. Having a low Lewis basicity.
  2. Having a suppressed proton coupling.

Antonyms of protophobic

Forms of protophobic

comparativemore protophobic
superlativemost protophobic

Origin of protophobic

From proto- + -phobic. For the sense in particle physics, from proton + -phobic, coined by theoretical particle physicists Jonathan Feng et al. in 2016.

Questions about protophobic

What does protophobic mean?
Protophobic means having a low Lewis basicity.
What part of speech is protophobic?
Protophobic is an adjective.

Words near protophobic in the dictionary

  1. protophilosophical
  2. protophilosophies
  3. protophilosophy
  4. protophloem
  5. protophloems
  6. protophobic
  7. protophorin
  8. protophorins
  9. protophorphyrinogen
  10. protophosphide
  11. protophosphides

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