electron
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At temperatures close to -270 °C, each electron interacts with roughly one million nearby nuclear spins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Feedback between the electron spins and nuclear spins keeps the oscillations going.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
When an antimuon encounters a free electron, the two form a muonium atom with positive chemical potential.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
One of them is the muon, a heavier relative of the electron that belongs to the second generation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
There was no evidence that hydrogen ions had charged around Edlefsen’s “rather sketchy” apparatus at all, much less at any appreciable fraction of 1 million electron volts.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
In a battery, electrons flow from cathode to anode, external when charging and in the opposite direction when discharging or providing power.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
These added elements create localized electrons within the material.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
He argues that it doesn't make sense to constantly convert data from photons to electrons and back to photons.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
But it might as well be drinking electrons through a straw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The atom—the fundamental unit of matter—was actually made of even more fundamental units of matter: electrons, protons, and neutrons.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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