electron
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The other is the Zeeman effect, which describes the coupling between the magnetic field and electron spin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
Such control could prove valuable for spintronics, a field that uses electron spin as well as electrical charge to process and store information, and for new computer memory designs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
"Our catalyst works a bit differently because it actually just ejects the electron directly into solvent," says Zachary Wickens, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry who led the work.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
For decades, however, chemists have faced a basic limitation in how electron transfer works.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
In Rutherford’s experiment, the alpha-particles had energies of millions of electron volts.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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Under these conditions, relativistic electrons can lose energy more quickly as they interact with the cosmic microwave background.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
In particular, the material seemed to have a single energy gap, a key characteristic that reflects how electrons pair together so they can move without electrical resistance.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
The method measures the momentum of electrons emitted from the molecule, giving scientists access to one half of the wavefunction without physically changing its state.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Under ordinary conditions, electrons are distributed relatively evenly throughout erbium tritelluride.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Since each atom is electrically neutral, the number of protons in the nucleus must exactly equal the number of electrons in the electron cloud.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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