deuton

[ doo-ton, dyoo- ]

noun

, Physics Now Rare.

1. deuteron.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deuton¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Lawrence’s excitement about the possibilities of the deuton matched Lewis’s.

From Literature

The deuton, Livingston added, “was what made the Berkeley laboratory famous. We were opening up a whole new field of science.”

From Literature

During a May conference at Caltech honoring the visiting Niels Bohr, he alluded to the lightweight neutron while describing the disintegration of eight heavy targets, up to aluminum, by deuton bombardment.

From Literature

Ernest Rutherford was as quick as Lawrence and Lewis to divine the virtues of the deuton as a nuclear projectile.

From Literature

To his friend Henry Barton, director of the American Institute of Physics, he wrote that he was prepared “to convince anybody that the deuton is disintegrated.”

From Literature