How to Use electron in a Sentence
electron
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But on its own it’s erratic, always wanting to give up an electron and take on a charge.
— Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021 -
That increases the movement of electrons from iron surfaces.
— George Petras, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024 -
This sudden drop in electron pressure triggers a collapse and the star buckles beneath its own weight.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2021 -
What researchers measure is the energy spectrum of the electron.
— Don Lincoln, Forbes, 18 May 2021 -
But many of the matter particles that make up our world, such as electrons, are fermions, which have half-integer amounts of spin.
— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024 -
One is that fermions — those are matter particles like electrons and quarks — interact with space-time in a funny way.
— Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024 -
Thus, weak force interactions will happen either more or less, depending on the electron’s spin.
— Don Lincoln, Forbes, 7 May 2021 -
Zoom in: The loudest exhale may come from founders pursuing price-sensitive commodities such as fuel, chemicals and electrons.
— Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024 -
Quantum physics is a branch of science that explains how everything works at the most microscopic level: the smallest unit of charge (the electron), the smallest unit of light (the photon), and so on.
— Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2021 -
According to Bohr’s formulas, an electron circling the nucleus of an atom will somehow leap from one fixed orbit to another, as if by magic, seeming not to exist between leaps.
— John Banville, WSJ, 28 May 2021 -
It’s least 6 million times lighter than the mass of an electron.
— David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2023 -
The faster the muon or electron, the heavier the W boson that produced it.
— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022 -
Atoms are stable when the electrons in the outer shell are in pairs.
— Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023 -
Again, the electron will always deflect by the same amount toward one of the poles.
— Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2021 -
Haynes finally made progress by taking a closer look using Dartmouth's electron scanning microscope facility.
— Cypress Hansen, Scientific American, 10 May 2021 -
When hit by photons, the dots emit electrons that flow across the graphene sheet to produce a current.
— The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024 -
In atoms, the negative electron acts like it is spread over the blue region.
— Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022 -
This is achieved by imprinting the vortex beam’s structure on to the electron spins.
— IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023 -
But one way to explain how an electron can be in two places at the same time is to assume that the universe splits in half.
— Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021 -
Every point of that electron’s journey to the point that it is consumed is tracked and recorded on a blockchain.
— Bernard Marr, Forbes, 15 July 2022 -
Now our Ouija boards are digital, with planchettes that glide across petabytes of text at the speed of an electron.
— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022 -
In turn, the electrons are what powers the fuel cell’s electric motor.
— Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 12 May 2023 -
They are known to come in three types, or flavors: electron, muon and tau neutrinos.
— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2021 -
All the electrons that power the plant will be green electricity.
— Abc News, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2023 -
If the atom loses an electron, that atom will be unstable.
— Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023 -
To study the movement of electrons, the scientists had to use pulses of light that last an attosecond.
— Katrina Miller, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Then, as the heavy electron clusters dispersed, the lighter electrons would gather to fill in the thinner patches.
— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023 -
The passage of each electron in the current is accompanied by the transport of one ion through the electrolyte.
— Wesley Chang, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024 -
The storms are caused by magnetic energy and electrons that are hurled into space by the sun.
— Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023 -
That means straight beams of light drawn from A to B, electrons shot straight and narrow onto a cathode ray tube that glows in response.
— Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
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