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MUON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino
Synonyms:
mu-meson; muon; negative muon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("muon" is a kind of...):
lepton (an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0)
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