Associations to the word «Muon»

Wiktionary

MUON, noun. An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 209 times greater.
MUON NEUTRINO, noun. A leptonic elementary particle having about half the mass of an electron and no charge.
MUON NEUTRINOS, noun. Plural of muon neutrino

Dictionary definition

MUON, noun. An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats