electron
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Every step was performed under vacuum and at cryogenic temperatures to eliminate interference from oxygen, water, or even the microscopes' electron beams.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
That doesn’t mean every electron comes from solar or wind, but it does mean Google can claim to be offsetting its power use with low-carbon-emissions sources that use almost no water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Eventual analysis with scanning electron microscopy at the Canadian Museum of Nature allowed researchers to confirm it as a probable embolomere.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
That threshold falls to roughly 10 electron volts when fluorine is added and about 14 electron volts when oxygen is used.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
The “true” electron is a bit heavier and carries a greater charge than the electron that physicists observe.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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To investigate the process, Montemore and co-author Santu Biswas, a postdoctoral fellow in Tulane's Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, used computer simulations to model how atoms and electrons behave.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
These special pathways allow electrons to travel along the edges of the material and are protected by the symmetry of the crystal lattice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Their work expanded on Niels Bohr's early atomic model, which pictured electrons orbiting the nucleus much like planets orbit the sun.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
When an electrical current pushes the electrons through this ultra-thin pathway at high speeds, the electrons release their excess energy as bursts of sound-like vibrations known as phonons.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
They also allow the reverse processes, antiquarks turning into electrons, and electrons and antielectrons turning into antiquarks and quarks.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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