nucleon
Noun
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is a type of: baryon, heavy particle - any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1subtypes:
- antineutron - the antiparticle of a neutron
- antiproton - an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton
- neutron - an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus
- proton - a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
is a part of: nucleus - the positively charged dense center of an atom
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