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isotone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
iso-tone
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a number of nuclides of different elements that have the same number of neutrons.

adj

monotone nondecreasing.

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.

Inflected Forms

isotones (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

isotonic isobar isotope

Questions

What does isotone mean?
Any of a number of nuclides of different elements that have the same number of neutrons.
Where does isotone come from?
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.

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