Associations to the word «Pion»

Wiktionary

PION, noun. (particle) Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.

Dictionary definition

PION, noun. A meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision.

Wise words

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