varitron
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An alleged subatomic particle with variable mass that Armenian physicists claimed to have discovered in the 1940s, but which was subsequently debunked.
Example Sentences
- "The mass of a varitron varies from 100 to 25,000 electron masses."
- "The discovery of the varitron brought the brothers Alikhanov not only immediate fame, but considerable fortune as well in the form of a Stalin Prize First Class accompanied by 200,000 rubles."
- "This high official exercised "self-criticism" in his own name and that of Soviet science for this "gross mistake”, and denounced all those who tried to protect the varitron story against experimental evidence."
- "These first flickering stars were perhaps giving birth in his mind to the thoughts of proton explosions, of developmental phases and cycles, of super-dense matter, of cosmic showers and storms of varitrons, of different theories of cosmogony, including his own, of instruments for recording invisible streams of stellar energy..."