How to Use electron in a Sentence

electron

noun

• 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, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom’s center.
  — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 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
• As the electron beam makes its laps, magnets along the circular track bend the particle stream.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The electrons collide with other particles and create more electrons in a cascading process.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
• The dynamism and large volume of these high-energy events, the researchers say, hint that the electron avalanches at their source act to limit a thunderstorm’s large-scale electric fields, in addition to spurring lightning production.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024