How to Use electron in a Sentence

electron

noun
  • This is the ease with which its atoms can shed electrons.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • When the battery was turned on, the ions and electrons flowed back to the cathode.
    — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • The electrons tumble and splash, and all that splashing amounts to waste.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • Even electrons take time to travel from place to place.
    — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • This is because the bonds require the carbon atoms to share electrons.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • At low speeds and low demand the rear motor does all the work in near silence of oiled electrons.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • In atoms, the negative electron acts like it is spread over the blue region.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The qubit stored in the electron’s spin and the qubit stored in the photon’s presence or absence in the time slots are now entangled.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 19 June 2019
  • The researchers were looking for the coupling between electrons and a type of sound wave, called a phonon.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Unlike the breeze that blows here on Earth, this wind is made up of electrons and protons from the sun's corona.
    — Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 16 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • As a result, the state of the electrons in the wire influenced the capacitance of the quantum dot.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2025
  • And the electrons can indeed be so locked, by running a current through the ion-rich liquid.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • 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
  • What electrons have to be flowing for the universe to grant the Chiefs a win according to Watson?
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In turn, the electrons are what powers the fuel cell’s electric motor.
    — Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 12 May 2023
  • The researchers discovered the mass to be 10 million times lighter than an electron.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
  • To get the monomers to link together, a lone electron – or free radical – initiates a bond with a monomer, triggering a chain reaction.
    — Aaron Priester, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2025

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