muon

See also muón, muôn, muốn, muộn, and mượn

English

Etymology

Contraction of mu-meson (the particle has now been recategorised as a lepton).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmjuːɒn/

Noun

muon (plural muons)

1. An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 209 times greater.

Translations

an unstable elementary particle in the lepton family

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: մյուոն (hy) (myuon)
• Bengali: মিউওন (bn)
• Catalan: muó m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: muon (nl) n
• Esperanto: muono (eo)
• French: muon (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: μιόνιο (el) (miónio) n

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: muone (it) m
• Japanese: ミュー粒子 (myū ryūshi)
• Khmer: មុយាណូ (km) (muy yea no)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: myon (no) n
• Persian: میون (fa), میوآن (fa) (myuân)
• Polish: mion (pl) m
• Russian: мюон (ru) (mjuón) m
• Swedish: myon (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

External links

• Muon on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: mu‧on

Etymology

Contraction of mu-meson

Noun

muon n (plural muonen)

1. (physics) muon

Esperanto

Noun

muon

1. accusative singular of muo