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"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прото́н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "про̀то̄н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pròtōn"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "proton"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"word": "protón"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "proton"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"word": "mulasik"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bproo-dtɔn",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"word": "โปรตอน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"word": "proton"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"word": "proton"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "proton",
"sense": "positively charged nucleon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "פּראָטאָן"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"William Prout"
],
"word": "proton"
}
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