ELECTRONS

Meaning of ELECTRONS in English

Negatively charged building blocks of an atom that circle around the nucleus.

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SUBATOMIC PARTICLE — also called elementary particle, any of various self-contained units of matter or energy. More than 200 subatomic particles have been …
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SPECTROSCOPY — the investigation of spectra, the phenomena observed when electromagnetic radiations from a particular source are separated into their constituent colours …
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RANGE — in radioactivity, the distance that a particle travels from its source through matter. The range depends upon the type of …
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RADICAL — in politics, one who desires extreme change of part or all of the social order. The word was first used …
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QUANTUM MECHANICS — science dealing with the behaviour of matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scale. It attempts to describe and …
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PLASMA — in physics, an electrically conducting medium in which there are roughly equal numbers of positively and negatively charged particles, produced …
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PHONON — in solid-state physics, quantum of lattice vibrational energy. In analogy to a photon (a quantum of light), the phonon can …
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METALLIC BOND — force that holds atoms together in a metallic substance. Such a solid consists of closely packed atoms. In most cases, …
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LIGAND FIELD THEORY — in chemistry, one of several theories that describe the electronic structure of coordination or complex compounds, notably transition metal complexes, …
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IONIZATION — in chemistry and physics, any process by which electrically neutral atoms or molecules are converted to electrically charged atoms or …
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ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION — also called Electronic Structure, the arrangement of electrons in energy levels around an atomic nucleus. According to the older shell …
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ELECTRON TUBE — also called vacuum tube, or valve, device used in electronic circuitry to control a flow of electrons. Such devices include …
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ELECTRON — lightest stable subatomic particle known. It carries a negative charge which is considered the basic charge of electricity. An electron …
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ELECTROLUMINESCENCE — production of light by the flow of electrons, as within certain crystals. Electroluminescence is one of the few instances in …
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ELECTRICITY — the phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electric charges. Electric charge is a fundamental property of matter and is borne …
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ELECTRIC CHARGE — quantity of electricity that flows in electric currents or that accumulates on the surfaces of dissimilar nonmetallic substances that are …
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CLUSTER — Atoms and molecules are the smallest forms of matter typically encountered under normal conditions and are in that sense the …
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CHEMICAL REACTION
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CHEMICAL BONDING — any of the interactions that account for the association of atoms into molecules, ions, crystals, and other stable species. When …
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BREMSSTRAHLUNG — (German: braking radiation), electromagnetic radiation produced by a sudden slowing down or deflection of charged particles (especially electrons) passing through …
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BAND THEORY — in solid-state physics, theoretical model describing the states of electrons, in solid materials, that can have values of energy only …
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ATOM — smallest unit into which matter can be divided without the release of electrically charged particles. It also is the smallest …
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ATMOSPHERE — gaseous envelope that surrounds the Earth. Other planets of the solar system, as well as a few of the large …
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GUNN EFFECT — high-frequency oscillation of electrical current flowing through certain semiconducting solids. The effect is used in a solid-state device, the Gunn …
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ATOMIC STRUCTURE AND INTERACTIONS — Atomic structure and interactions Electrons As noted above, the electron was the first subatomic particle discovered. Its interactions determine atomic …
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ELECTRON — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES electron microscope COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE free ▪ The alternating transverse force makes the …
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