electron
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Afterward, the scientists examined the tested samples using powerful electron microscopes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
That prediction describes the conventional process involving a single electron.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
"It can be shown that when the electron returns to its atom, it generates a whole range of different frequencies with roughly equal intensity," says Dimitar Popmintchev, postdoc in Tenio Popmintchev's team at TU Wien.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Now, physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have brought that same principle to electron microscopy, a technology capable of magnifying objects roughly 10,000 times more than conventional light microscopes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yet this has been done with the aid of the electron microscope and the techniques of the biochemist.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Intense radiation from early galaxies gradually transformed the hydrogen by stripping electrons from its atoms, leaving behind positively charged protons and free electrons.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
By carefully controlling the ultraviolet laser pulses, the researchers could arrange for both electrons to return to the atom simultaneously.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Although the electrons were freed at different moments, their behavior remained connected through quantum correlations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Observing processes at such speeds is essential for understanding how electrons move and influence one another in quantum systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
However, for orbits whose lengths were not a whole number of wavelengths, each wave crest would eventually be canceled out by a trough as the electrons went round; these orbits would not be allowed.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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