a 1 x 8 i 1 o 1 n 1
5 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originCoined by American physicist Frank Wilczek in 1978 after Axion, a brand of laundry detergent, for its -on suffix and the notion that the new particle could "clean up" a problem in physics. Also with relation to the axial current.
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