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hyperon
[ hahy-puh-ron ]
noun
Physics.
- any baryon with strangeness other than zero, especially one with a relatively long lifetime.
hyperon
/ ˈ³ó²¹Éª±èəˌ°ùÉ’²Ô /
noun
- physics any baryon that is not a nucleon
hyperon
/ ³óī′±èÉ™-°ùŲÔ′ /
- Any of various baryons, other than the proton and neutron, that are unstable. The lambda particle is such an example. Hyperons are heavier than protons and neutrons, and they have nonzero strangeness .
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hyperon1
C20: from hyper- + -on
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Example Sentences
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One with a core made of pliable hyperon matter could have a smaller radius still.
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And Gell-Mann made a prediction: that there should be one additional type of hyperon, that he called the W–, with strangeness –3, and certain mass and decay characteristics.
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But whereas neutrons contain the most basic and lowest-energy quarks, known as up and down quarks, a hyperon has at least one of those replaced with an exotic ‘strange’ quark.
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