ISOSPIN


Meaning of ISOSPIN in English

or isobaric spin or isotopic spin

Property characteristic of families of related electric charge .

The families are known as isospin multiplets. The components of atomic nuclei, the neutron and the proton , form an isospin doublet since they differ only in electric charge and subsidiary properties. They are considered different versions of the same object, called a nucleon. The isospin of a nucleon has a value of 12.

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