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- noun Plural form of
preon .
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Hillary has never been had a people defined as non-preons.
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The possibility that quarks and leptons are made of smaller constituents — preons — has certainly been taken very seriously, although none of the models has really caught on.
What Will the LHC Find? Sean 2008
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Build a big enough refrigerator and you can start processing passing tau neutrinos into raw preons of any of two flavours.
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Build a big enough refrigerator and you can start processing passing tau neutrinos into raw preons of any of two flavours.
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Better collisions could reveal other exotic particles like Higgs bosons or their theoretical alternative preons (point particles that some have theorized make up quarks and gluons.
DailyTech Main News Feed Jason Mick 2010
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