different between gluon vs photon

English

Etymology

From glue +? -on. Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1962.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu??n/

Noun

gluon (plural gluons)

1. (physics) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Luong, long u, lungo

Danish

Noun

gluon

1. (particle physics) gluon

Declension

Esperanto

Noun

gluon

1. accusative of gluo

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ly.??/

Noun

gluon m (plural gluons)

1. (physics) gluon

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu.?n/

Noun

gluon m inan

1. (physics) gluon

Declension

Derived terms

• gluonowy

Spanish

Alternative forms

• gluón (superseded)

Etymology

From English gluon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lwon/, [??lwõn]

Noun

gluon m (plural gluones)

1. gluon

Hypernyms

• bosón
• partícula elemental

See also

(bosons) bosón; bosón de gauge, gluon, bosón W, bosón Z, fotón, bosón de Higgs, gravitón

• gluon on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

English

Etymology

From photo- +? -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??t?n/

Noun

photon (plural photons)

1. (physics) The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• phonon
• plasmon

Anagrams

• notoph

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.t??/

Noun

photon m (plural photons)

1. (physics) photon

Further reading

• “photon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).