electron
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The first electron was released and accelerated by the laser field, followed by the second.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
That prediction describes the conventional process involving a single electron.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Devices designed to alter the phase of electron beams often weakened the beam too much, introduced image instability, or reduced resolution.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 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
Rutherford’s finding presented some large and immediate problems, not least that no electron should be able to orbit a nucleus without crashing.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
Rather than relying on the energy of a single returning electron, the process draws on the combined energy of two interacting electrons.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
"Using UV driving pulses, we can arrange for both electrons to return to the atom at exactly the same time," says Dimitar Popmintchev.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Similar experiments involving argon and neon did not produce the same behavior in their outer electrons.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
In K-capture, the nucleus absorbs one of the two electrons from its innermost electron “shell”— the “K” shell—thereby transforming a nuclear proton into a neutron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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