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    Muonium (/ˈmjuːoʊniəm/) is an exotic atom made up of an antimuon and an electron, which was discovered in 1960 by Vernon W. Hughes and is given the chemical...
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    atom. For the onium of an electron and an antimuon, see muonium. In particle physics, true muonium is a theoretically predicted exotic atom representing...
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  • lattice QCD are increasingly important tests of quantum chromodynamics. Muonium, despite its name, is not an onium containing a muon and an antimuon, because...
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    suffix when present), with one exception for "muonium"; a muon–antimuon bound pair is called "true muonium" to avoid confusion with old nomenclature. Positronium...
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    Unlike muonium, positronium does not have a nucleus analogue, because the electron and the positron have equal masses. Consequently, while muonium tends...
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  • e+ ), muonium ( e−   μ+ ), and "true muonium" ( μ−   μ+ ). Of these positronium and muonium have been experimentally observed, while "true muonium" remains...
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    Because muons decay with lifetime 2.2 µs, muonium is too unstable to exhibit observable chemistry. Nevertheless, muonium compounds are important test cases for...
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  • other systems, such as positronium (an electron orbiting a positron) and muonium (an electron orbiting an anti-muon) by using the reduced mass of the system...
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    Antihydrogen Antihelium Onia Antiprotonic hydrogen Antiprotonic helium Muonium True muonium Pionium Positronium Quarkonium Concepts and phenomena Annihilation...
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    Antihydrogen Antihelium Onia Antiprotonic hydrogen Antiprotonic helium Muonium True muonium Pionium Positronium Quarkonium Concepts and phenomena Annihilation...
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