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Antiproton vs Electron - What's the difference?

antiproton | electron |

As nouns the difference between antiproton and electron

is that antiproton is (physics) the antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge while electron is .

antiproton

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physics) The antiparticle of the proton, having a negative electric charge.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton , the quark and the Higgs boson.}}

    electron

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (particle) The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.
  • (chemistry, obsolete) Alloys of magnesium and other metals, like aluminum or zinc, that were manufactured by the German company Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron.
  • See also

    * neutron * proton * (wikipedia "electron") ----