electron
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Unlike the usual process involving one electron, the experiment allowed both of helium's electrons to be removed in succession.
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
One of the biggest problems is that an electron beam can heat and eventually damage the specimen being examined.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Rather than simply illuminating a specimen, the laser interacts directly with the microscope's electron beam, altering its phase to increase image contrast.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 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
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The achievement could eventually contribute to the development of molecular electronic components and technologies involving spintronics, which uses properties of electrons beyond their electrical charge.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
The driving force comes directly from electrons traveling through the spiral molecule.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
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
Although the electrons were freed at different moments, their behavior remained connected through quantum correlations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Now the slice, sitting on the grid, which was held in place by the tire iron, was positioned in the microscope, centered in the beam of electrons.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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