mesotron

See also: mésotron

English

Etymology

From meso- +‎ -tron. Coined by American physicists Carl Anderson and by 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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Noun

mesotron (plural mesotrons)

  1. (physics, dated) meson

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