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electron

[ih-lek-tron] / ɪˈlɛk trɒn /


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If the system works as expected, it could open a new approach to electron microscopy in which researchers gain more information while exposing sensitive samples to fewer electrons.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

The basic imaging process still relies on electrons, just as it does in a conventional electron microscope.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

That could allow scientists to recover useful details that would be impossible to identify using ordinary electron counting alone.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

By doing so, the researchers hope to extract more useful information from each electron, potentially allowing scientists to form clearer images while exposing delicate samples to fewer electrons.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Frederick A. Murphy was one of the original discoverers of Ebola virus, the wizard with an electron microscope who had first photographed the virus and whose work had hung in art museums.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The issue centers on the inductive effect, a fundamental idea in structural organic chemistry used to describe how atoms influence the distribution of electrons within molecules.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

By doing so, the researchers hope to extract more useful information from each electron, potentially allowing scientists to form clearer images while exposing delicate samples to fewer electrons.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

One possibility involved many-body effects produced by collective interactions among numerous electrons.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

One is cyclotron energy, which comes from the orbital motion of electrons through a magnetic field.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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