Complete Definition of "kaon"

see|KAON|käön
English

Etymology
From contracted pronunciation of K-meson

Noun
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  1. particles 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

#* K<sup>0</sup>: strange quark + down antiquark
#* K<sup>0*</sup> (antiparticle of K<sup>0</sup>): down quark + strange antiquark
#* K<sup>+</sup>: strange quark + up antiquark
#* K<sup>-</sup> (antiparticle of K<sup>+</sup>): up quark + strange antiquark

Translations
trans-top|K-meson
Finnish: kaoni
Italian: kaone m
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Russian: каон (kaón) m
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fr:kaon

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