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ELECTRON

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There are 19 entries related to ELECTRON in the AudioEnglish.net dictionary.


1. What does ELECTRON mean?
pronunciation
It's an elementary particle with negative charge

2. What does ELECTRON GUN mean?
pronunciation
The electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathode-ray tube or electron microscope; consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it

3. What does ELECTRON BEAM mean?
pronunciation
It's a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

4. What does ELECTRON LENS mean?
pronunciation
Electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons

5. What does ELECTRON TUBE mean?
pronunciation
Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

6. What does ELECTRON VOLT mean?
pronunciation
It's a unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt

7. What does FREE ELECTRON mean?
pronunciation
Electron that is not attached to an atom or ion or molecule but is free to move under the influence of an electric field

8. What does ELECTRON ORBIT mean?
pronunciation
The path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom

9. What does ELECTRON SHELL mean?
pronunciation
It's a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom

10. What does ELECTRON OPTICS mean?
pronunciation
The branch of electronics that deals with beams of electrons and their focusing and deflection by magnetic fields

11. What does VALENCE ELECTRON mean?
pronunciation
It's an electron in the outer shell of an atom which can combine with other atoms to form molecules

12. What does ELECTRON RADIATION mean?
pronunciation
Radiation of beta particles during radioactive decay

13. What does ELECTRON MICROSCOPE mean?
pronunciation
It's a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light

14. What does ELECTRON MICROSCOPY mean?
pronunciation
Microscopy with the use of electron microscopes

15. What does ELECTRON MULTIPLIER mean?
pronunciation
It's a vacuum tube that amplifies a flow of electrons

16. What does ELECTRON ACCELERATOR mean?
pronunciation
Collider that consists of an accelerator that collides electrons and positrons

17. What does ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC mean?
pronunciation
Of or relating to or involving an electron microscope

18. What does ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE mean?
pronunciation
Microwave spectroscopy in which there is resonant absorption of radiation by a paramagnet

19. What does ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE mean?
pronunciation
Microwave spectroscopy in which there is resonant absorption of radiation by a paramagnet


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