English Explanatory Dictionary

notoph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hypothetical particle with helicity properties complementary to those of a photon.

Word forms

notoph notophs

Etymology

Phonetic reversal of photon; introduced in the 1960s by Ogievetskii and Polubarinov.

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