proton number


Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Wikipedia.
Related to proton number: neutron number

proton number

[′prō‚tän ‚nəm·bər]
(nuclear physics)
atomic number
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
Asakawa, "Relation between baryon number fluctuations and experimentally observed proton number fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions," Physical Review C, vol.
Experimental Results on Charge Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Encyclopedia browser ?
Full browser ?