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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun physics any of four
unstable subatomic particles ,mesons , they are acombination of astrange quark orantiquark and either anup ordown quark or antiquark
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- noun an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fast forward a few years to the mid-1960s, and another group found that a particle known as kaon violated two types of symmetry-charge and mirror, a CP-violation-when it underwent radioactive decay.
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Interview with Slumdog Millionaire Director Danny Boyle | /Film 2008
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We had determined that the most effective target for turning a positive kaon beam into a neutral kaon beam would be made of osmium.
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Kaon Interactive's new multiplayer Internet game, Terra: Battle for the Outland (free download at www. kaon.com; $9.95 per month), is a very special experience.
Online Terra Infirma 2008
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There are a certain amount of electron neutrino events inherent in the beam, which come from kaon decays.
MiniBooNE Neutrino Result - Guest Blog from Heather Ray John 2007
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They are not invariant under the T (time reversal) operation of quantum field theory, as has been experimentally verified in the decay of the neutral kaon.
Arrow of Time FAQ Sean 2007
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The temporal direction will have to be understood in other terms, perhaps in terms of intrinsic physical asymmetries such as involved with entropy or with the decay of the neutral kaon, or perhaps simply taken as primitive.
The Metaphysics of Causation Schaffer, Jonathan 2007
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The first of these investigated the charge asymmetry in the decay of the long-lived neutral kaon.
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Turns out PM Manmohan Singh is yet to issue a statement baliyavi prime minister manmohan singh tweets his policies sitting on a baniyan tree and beurocratic crows take teir part of bone and tweet kaon kao
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ians 2010
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