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protophobic

The English word “protophobic” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

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

Etymology

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

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