How to Use proton in a Sentence

proton

noun

• 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
• Also returning are the Ghostbusters, though the folks in the proton packs are kids this time.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The kids rifle through the busters famous brown jumpsuits, proton packs stopping at the iconic Ecto-1.
  — Meredith Woerner, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• 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 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
• 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
• All seems to culminate with the kids driving around the infamous Ecto-1, shooting charges from a proton pack.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Strings also appear in the way the strong force acts among quarks, which are the elementary particles that make up a proton.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• Fermions include electrons and the quarks that are the constituents of protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• If a hydrogen atom were the size of Earth, the proton at its center would fit inside the Ohio State football stadium.
  — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2018
• However, the detailed structure of the proton is far more complex.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 9 Jan. 2020
• On the other hand, proton beam therapy can treat just the targeted area.
  — The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
• As the number of neutrons compared to protons went up, so too did the chances that a proton would pair up for a short-range correlation.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2018
• The pump transferred protons from the cytoplasm to the compartment between the extra membrane and the chloroplast.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2023
• Then an electric field sort of forces those protons through a proton exchange membrane.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
• Their conversations about protons and neutrons do not the stuff of passion make.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• The second laser pulse, blasting in from one side, will hit a curved metal foil, generating a beam of protons that provides the spark.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 15 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, the hole can absorb electrons from water to form protons and oxygen.
  — Charles W. Dunnill, Scientific American, 10 July 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024