neutron

From Glossary of Meteorology
An uncharged subatomic particle.

The rest mass of the neutron is slightly greater than that of the proton. Atomic nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons bound together by nuclear forces. The common term for neutron or proton is nucleon. Although the neutron is electrically neutral it does possess a charge structure and a magnetic dipole moment. The existence of the neutron was first demonstrated by James Chadwick in 1932.
Boorse, H. A., and L. Motz 1966. The World of the Atom. Vol. II, . 1288–1308.

A positively charged subatomic particle with a rest mass of 1.67262 x 10-27 kg, slightly less than that of the neutron and about 1836 times that of the electron.

  1. The product of a distance and another parameter.
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