noun
Meaning 1
A nuclear reaction in which an electron (either free, or from the shell of the atom itself) is absorbed into a nucleus, a proton being converted into a neutron in the process
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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