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
- This creates more free electrons and the process snowballs.
- a free electron
- As does the CRT, FED generates and shoots free electrons across a tube.
- If the density of Rydberg atoms was high enough for two of them to collide, the free electron from that collision would trigger an avalanche that ionized the rest of the Rydberg atoms.
- Plasmas are forms of matter in which a significant fraction of the neutral atoms and molecules have been ionized to form free electrons and ions.
- The electric field that exists between cloud top and ionosphere speeds up free electrons bopping about in the neighborhood.
- A single free electron traveling in a strong, uniform electric field ionizes the gaseous molecules around it, generating more electrons and a chain reaction of ionization.
- Integrate circuit, the laser and the gyroradiation of relativistic free electron were three important discovers and inventions in 1958.
- Depending on a plasma's temperature and its mix of atoms, some free electrons will recombine with needy atoms and cascade down the myriad energy levels within.
- In a strong electric field, free electrons can be accelerated onto its inner surface.
