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Kaon

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Noun

1. k particle, k-meson, kaon, kappa-meson

an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision

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Kaon

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noun
a meson that has a positive or negative charge and a rest mass of about 966 electron masses, or no charge and a rest mass of 974 electron masses
. Also called: K-meson

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Kaon

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noun
Particle Physics
any of four short-lived mesons that are positive, negative, or neutral and have a mass of 495 MeV/c2 (about 970 times that of an electron)

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Kaon

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n.
Any of a group of four mesons, one positively charged and one negatively charged, having a mass 966 times that of an electron, and two electrically neutral, having a mass 974 times that of an electron. The two charged kaons have the same mean lifetime, about 1.24 × 10-10 second; the two neutral kaons have lifetimes of about 9 × 10-11 second and 5 × 10-8 second. Also called K meson.

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