How to Use baryon in a Sentence

baryon

noun
  • In the natural world, baryons have at most one heavy quark.
    Seth Borenstein, The Seattle Times, 6 July 2017
  • In other words, the ratio of baryons, which include protons and neutrons, to photons, which light is made of, would have to shrink.
    Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
  • The most famous baryons are protons and neutrons, which make up everyday matter.
    Fox News, 11 July 2017
  • That suggests each pentaquark is just a baryon bound to a meson, with a tiny bit of mass taken up in binding energy.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • Magazines, screens, and air are made of atoms, and atoms are largely made of protons and neutrons – which are the most familiar examples of the three-quark bundles that physicists call baryons.
    Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2017
  • But by corralling huge numbers of baryons together, the people behind Super-Kamiokande hoped to spot one decaying much sooner, in just a few years.
    The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Dark matter makes up about 27 percent of the universe, but scientists know little about it except that it’s not made of normal matter particles called baryons.
    Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The heavier pentaquarks have masses just below the sum of the same baryon and a related meson with extra internal energy.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • Discovering five versions of a particle all at once is completely unprecedented and could reveal a lot about omega baryons and the nature of quarks.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2017
  • By a conventional Standard Model process, the antilepton excess would then have cascaded into a one-part-per-billion excess of baryons (protons and neutrons) over antibaryons.
    Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2013

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