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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of the two fermions (the proton and the neutron). Nucleons have one-half unit of spin and are basic components of all atomic nuclei.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) A neutron or proton, when contained within an atomic nucleus.
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- noun One of the
subatomic particles of the atomicnucleus , i.e. aproton or aneutron .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus
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Examples
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My work on its specific application to particle physics as a mechanism for generation of the nucleon mass and the pion was first published in 1960.
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"As the nucleon mass is nearly 2000 times the mass of an electron, then all atoms and molecules contain at least as many nucleons as electrons, baryons account for more than 99.5% of the total mass of all the chemical elements observed in the Universe."
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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The nucleon and electron have different masses which results in charge separations.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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There is also evidence supporting the conjecture that the equivalence principle is valid separately for quarks and gluons resulting in exact equipartition of momenta and angular momenta in the nucleon.
Generalized PDFs Imply a Gravitomagnetic Moment!?!?!? « Imaginary Potential 2008
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In the Li cycle the energy output per nucleon mass is half that of the D-T cycle, making it appear less attractive.
Nuclear Fusion Power Closer to Reality Say Two Separate Teams | Universe Today 2010
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“Example of anti-proton nucleon annihilation” Phys.
Goldhaber, Sulamith. 2009
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But, as the conjecture goes this nucleon-chemistry might be life-like, giving rise to the micron man.
Neutron Star at Core of Cas A Has Carbon Atmosphere | Universe Today 2009
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Consider this sentence: "The CDMS experiments and many others aim to measure the recoil energy imparted to detector nuclei through neutralino-nucleon collisions by employing sensitive phonon detection equipment coupled to arrays of cryogenic germanium and silicon crystals."
Archive 2008-02-01 x00c5;ka 2008
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Consider this sentence: "The CDMS experiments and many others aim to measure the recoil energy imparted to detector nuclei through neutralino-nucleon collisions by employing sensitive phonon detection equipment coupled to arrays of cryogenic germanium and silicon crystals."
Still nothing detected x00c5;ka 2008
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This would be a quantum system with some black hole amplitude on the scale of a nucleon.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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