hadron

noun

had·​ron ˈha-ˌdrän 

: any of the subatomic particles (such as protons and neutrons) that are made up of quarks and are subject to the strong force

hadronic

ha-ˈdrä-nik 

adjective

Example Sentences

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The second would upgrade the FCC-ee into a new hadron collider (FCC-hh) with an energy seven times that of the LHC. —Yuen Yiu, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2019

And a linear collider can't be repurposed into a high-energy hadron collider afterward. —John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 June 2020

But the argument had a flaw: While some hadrons do consist of pairs of quarks and anti-quarks and plausibly resemble strings, protons and neutrons contain three quarks apiece, invoking the ugly and uncertain picture of a string with three ends. —Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2015

Then there are dozens of particles made up of those elementary particles, including hadrons, which are constructed of quarks and gluons, and mesons, made of a quark and anti-quark. —Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018

Physicists wanted to know what these hadrons — particularly the buildings blocks of the atom's nucleus, the proton and neutron — were made of. —Amina Khan, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018

Among these were composite particles called hadrons. —Dylan Loeb Mcclain, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018

Quarks are tiny particles that are the building blocks of larger particles like protons, neutrons, and omega baryons, collectively called hadrons. —Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2017

Hadrons are a class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons. —Richard Martin, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2004

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Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary hadr- thick, heavy (from Greek hadros thick) + -on entry 2

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above