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Particle with a strangeness of +1 or -1
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kaon
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meson \Mes"on\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`son middle, neut. of me`sos, a., middle.] (Anat.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the ...
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Kaon may refer to: Kaon , a subatomic particle KAON , an ontology infrastructure Kaon Interactive , a video game developer of Terra (computer game) Kaon, a character in the Japanese manga Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora Kaón, former name of a mountain from Denia ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context particle English) any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision [syn: kappa-meson , k-meson , K particle ]
Usage examples of kaon.
Damage control robots swarmed like spidery hands, weird shadows against the flames, and Hazzard caught the acrid stink of burning insulation and fire-smothering kaon gas.
Then, picturing the greatest city he had ever known, Megatron changed his new environment into a replica of Kaon, the Decepticon power base and home city.
Secluded in his castle on Kaon, Dooku had just spoken with the general and was pondering how best to handle the situation.
But if the electrons were converted to kaons, they could all occupy the lowest energy level, putting up much less resistance, and making the collapse of a smaller star into a black hole theoretically possible.
It in fact should rebound at some point, with the kaons spontaneously reconverting to electrons.
At that point, neutrinos should again be able to escape—at least until the process reverses, and the electrons turn back into kaons again.