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  • adjective Pertaining to, or composed of muons

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Examples

  • The idea was that a negative muon would be caputred by a proton creating what was called muonic hydrogen (hydrogen with the electron replaced with a muon).

    Cosmic Log 2009

  • "In two years we will do another experiment with the same equipment, but this time with muonic helium," he added.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Here, by exciting muonic hydrogen with laser light, the muon jumps to a higher energy state with a higher probability of being found a greater distance from the nucleus.

    Discover Blogs 2010

  • Inclined showers are sensitive to the muonic component.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows miguelfm 2010

  • Inclined showers are sensitive to the muonic component.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows miguelfm 2010

  • Inclined showers are sensitive to the muonic component.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows miguelfm 2010

  • Inclined showers are sensitive to the muonic component.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows miguelfm 2010

  • The muon's larger mass gives muonic hydrogen a smaller atomic size and allows a much larger interaction with the proton.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Inclined showers are sensitive to the muonic component.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows miguelfm 2010

  • Water is again an option, but Semyonov notes that a ship would require a 'round shell of water of 5 m in thickness,' a huge increase in mass, and still insufficient for absorbing the highly penetrating secondary gamma and muonic radiation that will bathe the ship, demanding an additional shield of its own.

    Centauri Dreams 2009

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