How to Use electron in a Sentence

electron

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  • It’s least 6 million times lighter than the mass of an electron.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Atoms are stable when the electrons in the outer shell are in pairs.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • When hit by photons, the dots emit electrons that flow across the graphene sheet to produce a current.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • This is achieved by imprinting the vortex beam’s structure on to the electron spins.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Every point of that electron’s journey to the point that it is consumed is tracked and recorded on a blockchain.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • In turn, the electrons are what powers the fuel cell’s electric motor.
    — Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 12 May 2023
  • All the electrons that power the plant will be green electricity.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • If the atom loses an electron, that atom will be unstable.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • To study the movement of electrons, the scientists had to use pulses of light that last an attosecond.
    — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Then, as the heavy electron clusters dispersed, the lighter electrons would gather to fill in the thinner patches.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The storms are caused by magnetic energy and electrons that are hurled into space by the sun.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • That means straight beams of light drawn from A to B, electrons shot straight and narrow onto a cathode ray tube that glows in response.
    — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • On Tuesday, three scientists who probed the blurry realm of the electron were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Astronomers suspect the radio emissions are due to clouds of electrons.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • On Tuesday, three scientists won the physics prize for their work on how electrons zip around the atom in the tiniest fractions of seconds.
    — Karl Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
  • When these ions and electrons slam into Earth’s atmosphere, they’re drawn to the north and south magnetic poles.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2023
  • These filaments appear to be composed of huge amounts of cosmic ray electrons moving at close to the speed of light.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • The problem is that when temperatures plunge, batteries have to be warm enough for the electrons to move.
    — Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
  • An electrical current is just a flow of electrons in a circuit.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
  • These are quantities, such as the speed of light or the mass of the electron, which physicists have determined do not change over time throughout the universe.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Refueling of any kind, gas or electrons, must take place in the pits, so the Silvas were essentially out of the race.
    — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
  • These electrons all create electric fields that push on the other electrons.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • So, an electron in a BLG quantum dot can occupy either of the two valleys.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The movement of electrons in quantum dots is highly constrained.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Next, an electrical current passes through the sensor, which leads the virus’s spike protein to lose electrons.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • Take the simplest atom, hydrogen, which is a single electron bound to a single proton.
    — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Any electron that had a high orbit in glucose is likewise poised at its full potential in NADH.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • This recombination eats up the population of electrons and holes, pulling holes away from the p-side and electrons away from the n-side.
    — Sid Assawaworrarit, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The result is similar to when electrons collide with neon gas to create bright lightbulbs.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • These tiny holes allow electrons to flow more easily through the anode, leading to a faster charging time.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2023

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