electron
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These rare particles can exceed 100 exa-electron volts, or 100 quintillion electron volts.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Using electron microscopy, they found that the iron-rich macrophages sit close to nerve fibers.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
During similar experiments involving ruthenium, however, the researchers found that the reactions unexpectedly produced standard 18 electron products instead.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
It also became a classic example of a long-standing chemistry principle stating that stable transition metal complexes typically contain 18 electrons in their outer shell according to formal electron counting methods.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
The "shell" of an atom isn’t some hard shiny casing, as illustrations sometimes encourage us to suppose, but simply the outermost of these fuzzy electron clouds.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing electron
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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