English Explanatory Dictionary

isotone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a number of nuclides of different elements that have the same number of neutrons.
adj
  1. monotone nondecreasing.

Word forms

isotone isotones

Etymology

Reinterpretation of the p in isotope as standing for proton, leading to a replacement with the letter n for neutron. Coined by German physicist Kurt Guggenheimer in 1934.

Related words

isotonic isobar isotope
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