English Explanatory Dictionary

protophobic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a low Lewis basicity.
  2. Having a suppressed proton coupling.

Word forms

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Etymology

From proto- + -phobic. For the sense in particle physics, from proton + -phobic, coined by theoretical particle physicists Jonathan Feng et al. in 2016.

Antonyms

protophilic
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