How to Use neutron in a Sentence

neutron

noun

• 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
• Pentaquarks are heavier cousins of protons and neutrons, which are also made of quarks.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
• To test the strong nuclear force, physicists turned to the helium-4 nucleus, which has two protons and two neutrons.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• One promethium isotope, with eighty-eight neutrons, has a half-life of a few days; the other, with eighty-six neutrons, has a half-life of a few years.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
• The nuclei form a wide swath diagonally across the chart, whose lower edge is called the neutron drip line.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 26 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps convergences of black holes and neutron stars do too?
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 29 June 2021
• Like black holes, neutron stars are also formed when a star collapses.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• Most of the lithium on Earth is an isotope called lithium-7, meaning the nucleus has 3 protons and 4 neutrons.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• Only two other types of objects — black holes and neutron stars — are more compact than white dwarfs.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2021
• The new find shows that some, and quite possibly all, of the mystery elements come from neutron-star death spirals.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2017
• But the authors conclude that the results would be heavy, neutron-rich atomic nuclei.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2017
• Black holes and dense neutron stars are often created by the violent event of star death.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
• Currently up to 118 protons can be packed into an atomic nucleus, and the highest number of neutrons is much greater.
  — Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 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

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024