A unit of nuclear magnetic moment, analogous to the Bohr magneton, with the mass of the proton replacing that of the electron, and equal to about 5·05 × 10−27 joules per tesla.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Physical Review.
Definition of nuclear magneton in US English:
nuclear magneton
noun
Physics
A unit of nuclear magnetic moment, analogous to the Bohr magneton, with the mass of the proton replacing that of the electron, and equal to about 5·05 × 10−27 joules per tesla.