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nounan elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0
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Origin
From meso- + -tron. Coined by American physicists Carl Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer in 1938 in a letter to Nature titled "Mesotron (Intermediate Particle) as a Name for the New Particles of Intermediate Mass".
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French mésotron
- mésotronmeson
Italian mesotrone
- mesotronemeson
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mesotron. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mesotron
“mesotron.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mesotron. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mesotron,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mesotron.
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