How to Use electron in a Sentence

electron

noun
  • So, the lone electron just floats on the surface.
    — ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
  • Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.
    — Big Think, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Yet, the electrons are needed now.
    — Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • The team used an electron beam to etch patterns in that layer.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Atoms are stable when the electrons in the outer shell are in pairs.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • Each of these islands can hold a single electron.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That is, their free electron spins will align with the magnetic field.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Tops are iron, with four unpaired 3d electrons, and cobalt, with three.
    — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The electrons tumble and splash, and all that splashing amounts to waste.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2018
  • When the battery was turned on, the ions and electrons flowed back to the cathode.
    — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Both electrons and positrons have a small mass unlike photons, which have no mass.
    — Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But in certain decays, the electron doesn’t have enough zip.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Increase that field too much, and the electrons escape.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Like the electron, the muon spins like a top, and its spin imbues it with magnetism.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Unlike oil, electrons can’t be shipped in barrels across oceans.
    — Shelly Banjo, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
  • This shifts the energy states of those electrons.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2026
  • Muons are like electrons but heavier – with 200 times the mass.
    — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • So a nightly electron fill-up back at the depot should suffice.
    — Russ Mitchell Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom’s center.
    — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom's center.
    — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In atoms, the negative electron acts like it is spread over the blue region.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
  • When the electrons hit a defect in the crystal, that defect emits light.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Dec. 2025
  • This is because the bonds require the carbon atoms to share electrons.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Again, the electron will always deflect by the same amount toward one of the poles.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • The electric currents that pour from our wall sockets are streams of electrons.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026
  • At low speeds and low demand the rear motor does all the work in near silence of oiled electrons.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Muons are 200 times heavier than electrons.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026
  • These work by using electron vibrations around atoms to keep time.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • These particles, ions and electrons, get heated up and shoot out at great speed.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Compare that to, say, the electron, which weighs over half a million eV.
    — ArsTechnica, 25 June 2025

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