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Protons

"Protons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Stable elementary particles having the smallest known positive charge, found in the nuclei of all elements. The proton mass is less than that of a neutron. A proton is the nucleus of the light hydrogen atom, i.e., the hydrogen ion.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Protons" by people in this website by year, and whether "Protons" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 27 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2011 and 2013
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