deuton
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of deuton
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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It was much easier, and more pleasant, to understand round-faced young Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California tell how he transmuted elements with "deuton" bullets.
From Time Magazine Archive
To physicists, the heavy nucleus, the deuton, has proved an invaluable atom-smashing projectile.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wants deuteron or deuton to be the name of its atomic nucleus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Physicists soon called this newly recognized hydrogen nucleus the deuton.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lawrence’s excitement about the possibilities of the deuton matched Lewis’s.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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