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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024