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Mesotron

//ˈmɛs.əˌtɹɒn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    meson dated
  2. 2
    an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 wordnet

Etymology

From meso- + -tron. Coined by American physicists Carl Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer in 1938 in a letter to Nature titled "Mesotron (Intermediate Particle) as a Name for the New Particles of Intermediate Mass".

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