• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Well there’s usually an electron orbiting it…and sometimes it’s even stuck to a neutron.

    You had me wondering if “hydrogen” was just the name we’ve given a rogue proton.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      An H+ ion is a rogue proton. I’ve heard a physicist say before that she always would forget this fact.