tauon

See also: tauón, táuon, and taŭon

English

Etymology

tau +‎ -on, tau short for Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”), being the third lepton discovered.

Noun

tauon (plural tauons)

An unstable elementary particle which is a type of lepton, having a mass almost twice that of a proton, a negative charge, and a spin of ½; it decays into hadrons (usually pions) or other leptons, and neutrinos.
Synonyms: tau, tau lepton, tau particle

Derived terms

Translations

particle

Catalan: tauó (ca) m
Dutch: tauon n, taudeeltje n
Esperanto: taŭono
Finnish: tau (fi)
French: tauon (fr) m, tau (fr) m
Icelandic: táeind f
Ido: tauono (io)
Italian: tauone (it) m
Japanese: タウ粒子 (ja) (tau ryūshi)
Polish: taon (pl) m
Portuguese: tauão m (Portugal), táuon m (Brazil)
Russian: тау-лептон m (tau-lepton), таон m (taon)
Swedish: tauon (sv) c
Tagalog: taw tungapik

See also

Anagrams

Auton, auton

Dutch

Noun

tauon n (plural tauonen)

(physics) tauon

Synonyms

taudeeltje

Finnish

Noun

tauon

genitive singular of tauko

Anagrams

Tauno, auton, ontua, tuona

Japanese

Romanization

tauon

Rōmaji transcription of タウオン

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