What is another word for proton?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈə͡ʊtɒn] (IPA)

Protons are subatomic particles that carry a positive electrical charge and are found in the nucleus of an atom. Synonyms for the word "proton" include atomic nucleon, hydrogen ion, cation, and positive ion. Atomic nucleon refers to the overall family of subatomic particles found in the nucleus of an atom, including protons and neutrons. Hydrogen ion refers to a single proton outside of an atom, which is commonly found in acidic solutions. A cation is any positively charged ion, including protons, that can be formed by the loss of one or more electrons from the outer shell of an atom or molecule. Finally, a positive ion refers to any ion with an overall positive charge, including protons and cations.

What are the hypernyms for Proton?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Proton?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for proton (as nouns)

Usage examples for Proton

Oti gar ouk estin anthropo kata phusin to sarkophagein, proton men apo ton somaton deloutai tes kataskeues.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
Scintillation counters at A and B record the passage of a proton, thus defining its direction.
"LRL Accelerators The 184-Inch Synchrocyclotron"
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Every atom, you know, is a sort of solar system, with electrons revolving about a proton.
"The Pygmy Planet"
John Stewart Williamson

Famous quotes with Proton

  • Making models was reputed to be hugely enjoyable... But when you got the kit home and opened the box the contents turned out to be of a uniform leaden gray or olive green, consisting of perhaps sixty thousand tiny parts, some no larger than a proton, all attached in some organic, inseparable way to plastic stalks like swizzle sticks. The tubes of glue by contrast were the size of large pastry tubes. No matter how gently you depressed them they would blurp out a pint or so of a clear viscous goo whose one instinct was to attach itself to some foreign object—a human finger, the living-room drapes, the fur of a passing animal—and become an infinitely long string. Any attempt to break the string resulted in the creation of more strings. Within moments you would be attached to hundreds of sagging strands, all connected to something that had nothing to do with model airplanes or World War II. The only thing the glue wouldn’t stick to, interestingly, was a piece of plastic model; then it just became a slippery lubricant that allowed any two pieces of model to glide endlessly over each other, never drying. The upshot was that after about forty minutes of intensive but troubled endeavor you and your immediate surroundings were covered in a glistening spiderweb of glue at the heart of which was a gray fuselage with one wing on upside down and a pilot accidentally but irremediably attached by his flying cap to the cockpit ceiling. Happily by this point you were so high on the glue that you didn’t give a shit about the pilot, the model, or anything else.
    Bill Bryson
  • Accordingly the primordial state of things which I picture is an even distribution of protons and electrons, extremely diffuse and filling all (spherical) space, remaining nearly balanced for an exceedingly long time until its inherent instability prevails. We shall see later that the density of this distribution can be calculated; it was about one proton and electron per litre. There is no hurry for anything to begin to happen. But at last small irregular tendencies accumulate, and evolution gets under way. The first stage is the formation of condensations ultimately to become the galaxies; this, as we have seen, started off an expansion, which then automatically increased in speed until it is now manifested to us in the recession of the spiral nebulae.
    Arthur Eddington

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