How to Use neutron in a Sentence

neutron

noun

• Deuterium has one neutron in the nucleus and tritium has two.
  — Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2024
• Benny drove around a while longer, looking for the neutron and finally saw him, walking with his girlfriend.
  — Peter Nickeas, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Such events include the mergers of lighter binary black holes, of binary neutron stars or of a black hole with a neutron star.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2016
• An element’s isotopes have the same number of protons, but different amounts of neutrons.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• Deuterium, which is an isotope of hydrogen, has a neutron in its nucleus.
  — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
• All the particles, like protons, neutrons, and electrons, were created in the first few moment of the universe.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2016
• And upon its violent death, what is left behind is a highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron star.
  — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2016
• Cosmic rays, for example, can create neutrons that look similar to ones from neutrino reactions.
  — Jesse Emspak, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• But it’s been predicted that some isotopes of these elements might have just the right number of neutrons to balance the whole thing out, stabilizing it for minutes or even days.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 25 July 2024
• The energies of nuclear states come from adding and subtracting the huge electromagnetic and strong forces acting on all the protons and neutrons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
• Quick science break: Isotopes refer to chemical elements with differences in the number of neutrons in its atoms.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Aug. 2024
• According to the standard model of particle physics, every proton and neutron consists of three quarks, which are held together by gluons.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
• In February, physicists revealed evidence of an atom made only of neutrons — something many thought impossible.
  — Shannon Palus, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
• Black holes and neutron stars are both the result of star death.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 June 2021
• Both black holes and neutron stars are the remains of dead stars.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2020
• Its value seems to be zero, which makes the neutron’s charges stay in line.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2019
• The neutron is the Angel of Evil that powers all atomic weapons.
  — Rupert Goodwins, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2017
• The matter that forms neutron stars starts out as ionized atoms near the core of a massive star.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2022
• Each proton and neutron is made up of even tinier quarks and gluons.
  — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
• The fission reactor starts with a heavy atom like uranium-235 and hits it with a neutron.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
• The findings hint that nuclei with as many as 260 protons and neutrons might form via the r-process.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• This is seen, for instance, where black holes or neutron stars are in a close orbit such as this.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2022
• The idea was that the presence of a neutron would alter how electrons and muons perceive the proton's charge.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2019
• Both neutron stars and black holes are the results of violent star death.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2021
• The remnant cores of supernovae can form neutron stars: the hottest objects of all.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• The nucleus, in turn, was found to be composed of protons and neutrons.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• That number is the atomic weight—the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
• As the universe cooled, these processes stopped and the ratio of protons to neutrons was set.
  — Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
• The inner structure of neutron stars is an open question.
  — Sanjana Curtis, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• The team took advantage of these properties, scanning a sample of lead with neutrons that all had the same spin.
  — Anna Groves, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024