Axion vs Axin - What's the difference?
axion | axin |
(physics) a hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to explain some symmetry problems arising in the strong nuclear force.
* 2000 Beam Line (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
(biochemistry) A large docking protein that in humans is encoded by the AXIN1 gene, and that binds APC, GSK-3?, casein kinase I?, and ?-catenin.
As nouns the difference between axion and axin
is that axion is a hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to explain some symmetry problems arising in the strong nuclear force while axin is a fatty and varnish-like substance produced in Mexico by an insect, Coccus axinus, used in the arts and locally in medicine, being regarded as a good vulnerary and resolvent.axion
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Noun
(wikipedia axion) (en noun)- The axion is a candidate particle for the cold dark matter that constitutes a large fraction of the mass of the Universe.