muon
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muon
- /ˈmjuːɒn/
Rhymes with -uːɒn
Where it comes from
Contraction of the earlier term mu-meson; the particle has now been recategorised as a lepton. Coined by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1951 in his book Elementary Particles.
noun muons
- An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater. The μ-meson of Powell (called here muon) is instead a disintegration product of the pion, only weakly linked to the nucleons and therefore of little importance in the explanation of nuclear forces.
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Talk about this word "muon." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/muon. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. muon. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/muon "muon." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/muon.Cite this
@misc{muon_2026,
title = {muon},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/muon},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
