NOUN
- electron that is not attached to an atom or ion or molecule but is free to move under the influence of an electric field
How To Use free electron In A Sentence
- In a strong electric field, free electrons can be accelerated onto its inner surface.
- Nonetheless, I recently downloaded a free electronic copy of the book. The Times Literary Supplement
- Gold, silver, copper, aluminum, iron, etc., all have free electrons.
- Integrate circuit, the laser and the gyroradiation of relativistic free electron were three important discovers and inventions in 1958.
- The effective masses of the electrons are therefore increased - by a few percent in simple metals and by factors of up to 1000 in ‘heavy fermion ‘systems - but the quasiparticles still carry the same charge and spin as free electrons.’
- Even in its natural state, the melanin biopolymer contains free electrons in its conjugated structure.
- In a strong electric field, free electrons can be accelerated onto its inner surface.
- These free electrons can then tunnel through a thin oxide layer on top of the niobium where they are detected as excess current.
- In a preferred embodiment, the deactivation of the free electron pair of the nitrogen atom occurs by mesomerism and/or one or more electron-attracting and/or space-filling groups in the vicinity to the nitrogen atom.
- Once it turns to plasma, the air can easily conduct electricity with the free electrons, and the bolt of lightning shoots to the ground through the plasma conductor.
