How to Use electron in a Sentence

electron

noun
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  • It’s least 6 million times lighter than the mass of an electron.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The faster the muon or electron, the heavier the W boson that produced it.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Atoms are stable when the electrons in the outer shell are in pairs.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • Like the electron, the muon spins like a top, and its spin imbues it with magnetism.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom’s center.
    — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom's center.
    — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Again, the electron will always deflect by the same amount toward one of the poles.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • The proton’s charge is equal and opposite to the electron’s charge.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Afterward the electrons were bound up in atoms, and light could flow freely.
    — Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In atoms, the negative electron acts like it is spread over the blue region.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
  • This is achieved by imprinting the vortex beam’s structure on to the electron spins.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But one way to explain how an electron can be in two places at the same time is to assume that the universe splits in half.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Now our Ouija boards are digital, with planchettes that glide across petabytes of text at the speed of an electron.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • In turn, the electrons are what powers the fuel cell’s electric motor.
    — Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 12 May 2023
  • They are known to come in three types, or flavors: electron, muon and tau neutrinos.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2021
  • So a nightly electron fill-up back at the depot should suffice.
    — Russ Mitchell Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • 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 passage of each electron in the current is accompanied by the transport of one ion through the electrolyte.
    — Wesley Chang, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • But on its own it’s erratic, always wanting to give up an electron and take on a charge.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021
  • Astronomers suspect the radio emissions are due to clouds of electrons.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics went to three researchers studying the behavior of fast-moving electrons.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In order to study, say, a particular collection of electrons, researchers have to be clever about it.
    — Lakshmi Chandrasekaran, Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024

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