How to Use proton in a Sentence

proton

noun

• The change is the size of about one-thousandth the width of a proton.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• There are now 27 proton beam units in the U.S., up from about half a dozen a decade ago.
  — Jay Hancock, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
• The quarks that make up protons have anti-quarks, and so on.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• It hasn’t even been tested to the millimeter scale, let alone to the scale of a proton.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2023
• To an extent, this is similar to the question of where the mass of a proton is.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
• This told them there was something hard and discrete at the center of the proton.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Also returning are the Ghostbusters, though the folks in the proton packs are kids this time.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
• Patients have been treated with protons since the 1950s.
  — Bonnie Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Each atom of the stuff packs a whopping 118 protons into its dense center.
  — Michael Block, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2018
• What the target is made of depends on how many protons the researchers want in the final product.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• A proton consists of two up quarks and one down quark, while a neutron contains one up quark and two down quarks.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• Gluons, the particles of the strong force, connect with two up quarks and one down quark to create a proton.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• As the universe cooled, these processes stopped and the ratio of protons to neutrons was set.
  — Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
• Neutrons are the neutral counterpart to protons, one of the constituent parts of an atom.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 5 Sep. 2024
• Whether your son is going as Mike or Dr. Venkman, this costume still comes with the jumpsuit, proton pack and four badges.
  — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2019
• The proton pack is still one of the coolest weapons recorded in film, and the Ghostbuster outfits have been a Halloween staple for decades (ask the Stranger Things kids).
  — Adrianna Freedman, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
• In other words, the ratio of baryons, which include protons and neutrons, to photons, which light is made of, would have to shrink.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
• This hot—as in, hotter-than-the sun hot—world held the ingredients of atoms, protons, and neutrons in what is called quarks.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• There, the PPIs interfered with proton pumps in retinal cells.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2017
• The kids rifle through the busters famous brown jumpsuits, proton packs stopping at the iconic Ecto-1.
  — Meredith Woerner, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• These would have been even smaller — just the mass of a rhino, condensed into less than the volume of a single proton.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 17 June 2024
• WIMPs, despite their puny name, are thought to have a mass as much as a thousand times more than standard matter’s protons.
  — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
• Pentaquarks are heavier cousins of protons and neutrons, which are also made of quarks.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
• The history of the search for proton decay, meanwhile, goes back even further.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• The radius of a proton varies depending on whether its charge or its mass is being measured.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The problem is that an object usually has about the same number of electrons and protons, so that net force is at least weak.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• But unlike the massless photon, the W should have a mass nearly 86 times that of the proton, according to the standard model.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Yee found that the same proton pump also helps diatoms make their tough silica shell.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2023
• In spite of the detectors’ sizes, a gravitational wave changes the relative lengths of their arms by less than the width of a proton.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024