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Word: Proton
Speech Type: Noun
early 20th century (in sense ‘each of four hypothetical elements regarded as forming the basis of all the other elements’): from Greek, neuter of prōtos ‘first’. The modern sense is first recorded in 1920
ˈprəʊtɒn
a stable subatomic particle occurring in all atomic nuclei, with a positive electric charge equal in magnitude to that of an electron.
Short Definition:stable subatomic particle occurring in all atomic nuclei
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