Electronvolt, the Glossary

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1. 102 relations: Annihilation, Atomic physics, B meson, Baryon, Bevatron, Billion, Boltzmann constant, Bond energy, Cosmic microwave background, Coulomb, Covalent bond, Dalton (unit), Deuterium, Distance, Electric charge, Electron, Elementary charge, Elementary particle, Energy, Energy–momentum relation, Exponential decay, Faraday constant, Fat Man, Germanium, Grand unification energy, Hadron, Helium-4, Higgs boson, High-energy astronomy, Hydrogen atom, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Inertial confinement fusion, International System of Units, Invariant mass, Ion, Joule, Kelvin, Kilogram, Kinetic energy, Kinetic theory of gases, KT (energy), Large Hadron Collider, LED lamp, Magnetic confinement fusion, Mass, Mass–energy equivalence, Metric prefix, MKS units, Momentum, Mosquito, ... Expand index (52 more) »

2. Electron
3. Units of chemical measurement
4. Units of energy
5. Voltage

Annihilation

In particle physics, annihilation is the process that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its respective antiparticle to produce other particles, such as an electron colliding with a positron to produce two photons.

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Atomic physics

Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus.

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B meson

In particle physics, B mesons are mesons composed of a bottom antiquark and either an up, down, strange or charm quark.

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Baryon

In particle physics, a baryon is a type of composite subatomic particle, including the proton and the neutron, that contains an odd number of valence quarks, conventionally three.

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Bevatron

The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began operating in 1954.

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Billion

Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions.

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Boltzmann constant

The Boltzmann constant is the proportionality factor that relates the average relative thermal energy of particles in a gas with the thermodynamic temperature of the gas.

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Bond energy

In chemistry, bond energy (BE) is one measure of the strength of a chemical bond.

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Cosmic microwave background

The cosmic microwave background (CMB or CMBR) is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe.

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Coulomb

The coulomb (symbol: C) is the unit of electric charge in the International System of Units (SI).

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Covalent bond

A covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electrons to form electron pairs between atoms.

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Dalton (unit)

The dalton or unified atomic mass unit (symbols: Da or u) is a non-SI unit of mass defined as of the mass of an unbound neutral atom of carbon-12 in its nuclear and electronic ground state and at rest. Electronvolt and dalton (unit) are units of chemical measurement.

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Deuterium

Deuterium (hydrogen-2, symbol H or D, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other is protium, or hydrogen-1).

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Distance

Distance is a numerical or occasionally qualitative measurement of how far apart objects, points, people, or ideas are.

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Electric charge

Electric charge (symbol q, sometimes Q) is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

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Electron

The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.

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Elementary charge

The elementary charge, usually denoted by, is a fundamental physical constant, defined as the electric charge carried by a single proton or, equivalently, the magnitude of the negative electric charge carried by a single electron, which has charge −1.

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Elementary particle

In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles.

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Energy

Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.

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Energy–momentum relation

In physics, the energy–momentum relation, or relativistic dispersion relation, is the relativistic equation relating total energy (which is also called relativistic energy) to invariant mass (which is also called rest mass) and momentum.

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Exponential decay

A quantity is subject to exponential decay if it decreases at a rate proportional to its current value.

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Faraday constant

In physical chemistry, the Faraday constant (symbol, sometimes stylized as ℱ) is a physical constant defined as the quotient of the total electric charge (q) by the amount (n) of elementary charge carriers in any given sample of matter: it is expressed in units of coulombs per mole (C/mol).

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Fat Man

"Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was the codename for the type of nuclear weapon the United States detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945.

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Germanium

Germanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ge and atomic number 32.

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Grand unification energy

The grand unification energy \Lambda_, or the GUT scale, is the energy level above which, it is believed, the electromagnetic force, weak force, and strong force become equal in strength and unify to one force governed by a simple Lie group.

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Hadron

In particle physics, a hadron is a composite subatomic particle made of two or more quarks held together by the strong interaction.

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Helium-4

Helium-4 is a stable isotope of the element helium.

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Higgs boson

The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory.

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High-energy astronomy

High-energy astronomy is the study of astronomical objects that release electromagnetic radiation of highly energetic wavelengths.

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Hydrogen atom

A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen.

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IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino observatory developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.

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Inertial confinement fusion

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a fusion energy process that initiates nuclear fusion reactions by compressing and heating targets filled with fuel.

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International System of Units

The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.

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Invariant mass

The invariant mass, rest mass, intrinsic mass, proper mass, or in the case of bound systems simply mass, is the portion of the total mass of an object or system of objects that is independent of the overall motion of the system.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.

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Joule

The joule (pronounced, or; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI). Electronvolt and joule are units of energy.

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Kelvin

The kelvin, symbol K, is the base unit of measurement for temperature in the International System of Units (SI).

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Kilogram

The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg.

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Kinetic energy

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion.

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Kinetic theory of gases

The kinetic theory of gases is a simple classical model of the thermodynamic behavior of gases.

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KT (energy)

kT (also written as kBT) is the product of the Boltzmann constant, k (or kB), and the temperature, T. This product is used in physics as a scale factor for energy values in molecular-scale systems (sometimes it is used as a unit of energy), as the rates and frequencies of many processes and phenomena depend not on their energy alone, but on the ratio of that energy and kT, that is, on (see Arrhenius equation, Boltzmann factor).

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Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider.

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LED lamp

An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

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Magnetic confinement fusion

Magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) is an approach to generate thermonuclear fusion power that uses magnetic fields to confine fusion fuel in the form of a plasma.

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Mass

Mass is an intrinsic property of a body.

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Mass–energy equivalence

In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the relationship between mass and energy in a system's rest frame, where the two quantities differ only by a multiplicative constant and the units of measurement.

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Metric prefix

A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit.

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MKS units

The metre, kilogram, second system of units, also known more briefly as MKS units or the MKS system, is a physical system of measurement based on the metre, kilogram, and second (MKS) as base units.

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Momentum

In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (momenta or momentums; more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object.

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Mosquito

Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species.

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Muon

A muon (from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric charge of −1 e and spin-1/2, but with a much greater mass.

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Natural units

In physics, natural unit systems are measurement systems for which selected physical constants have been set to 1 through nondimensionalization of physical units.

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Neutral particle oscillation

In particle physics, neutral particle oscillation is the transmutation of a particle with zero electric charge into another neutral particle due to a change of a non-zero internal quantum number, via an interaction that does not conserve that quantum number. Electronvolt and neutral particle oscillation are particle physics.

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Nuclear fission

Nuclear fission is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei.

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Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).

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Nuclear physics

Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Nuclear weapon yield

The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent (the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene which, if detonated, would produce the same energy discharge), either in kilotonnes (kt—thousands of tonnes of TNT), in megatonnes (Mt—millions of tonnes of TNT), or sometimes in terajoules (TJ).

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Observable universe

The observable universe is a ball-shaped region of the universe consisting of all matter that can be observed from Earth or its space-based telescopes and exploratory probes at the present time; the electromagnetic radiation from these objects has had time to reach the Solar System and Earth since the beginning of the cosmological expansion.

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Oh-My-God particle

The Oh-My-God particle was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991 by the Fly's Eye camera in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United States.

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Order of magnitude

An order of magnitude is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to some contextually understood reference value, usually 10, interpreted as the base of the logarithm and the representative of values of magnitude one.

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Orders of magnitude (energy)

This list compares various energies in joules (J), organized by order of magnitude. Electronvolt and orders of magnitude (energy) are units of energy.

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Particle physics

Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation.

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Photoelectric effect

The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from a material caused by electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet light.

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Photon energy

Photon energy is the energy carried by a single photon.

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Phototube

A phototube or photoelectric cell is a type of gas-filled or vacuum tube that is sensitive to light.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Picosecond

A picosecond (abbreviated as ps) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10−12 or (one trillionth) of a second.

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Planck constant

The Planck constant, or Planck's constant, denoted by is a fundamental physical constant of foundational importance in quantum mechanics: a photon's energy is equal to its frequency multiplied by the Planck constant, and the wavelength of a matter wave equals the Planck constant divided by the associated particle momentum.

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Planck units

In particle physics and physical cosmology, Planck units are a system of units of measurement defined exclusively in terms of four universal physical constants: c, G, ħ, and ''k''B (described further below).

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Plasma (physics)

Plasma is one of four fundamental states of matter (the other three being solid, liquid, and gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons.

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Plutonium-239

Plutonium-239 (239Pu or Pu-239) is an isotope of plutonium.

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Positron

The positron or antielectron is the particle with an electric charge of +1e, a spin of 1/2 (the same as the electron), and the same mass as an electron. Electronvolt and positron are electron.

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Proton

A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol, H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 e (elementary charge).

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Pythagorean theorem

In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle.

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Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution

The relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution (after the 1936 nuclear resonance formula of Gregory Breit and Eugene Wigner) is a continuous probability distribution with the following probability density function, See (page 98 onwards) for a discussion of the widths of particles in the PYTHIA manual. Electronvolt and relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution are particle physics.

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Room temperature

Room temperature, colloquially, denotes the range of air temperatures most people find comfortable indoors while dressed in typical clothing.

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Scattering length

The scattering length in quantum mechanics describes low-energy scattering.

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Scintillation (physics)

In condensed matter physics, scintillation is the physical process where a material, called a scintillator, emits ultraviolet or visible light under excitation from high energy photons (X-rays or gamma rays) or energetic particles (such as electrons, alpha particles, neutrons, or ions).

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Silicon

Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.

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Solid-state physics

Solid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as solid-state chemistry, quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy.

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Speed of light

The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to). According to the special theory of relativity, is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter or energy (and thus any signal carrying information) can travel through space.

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Standard deviation

In statistics, the standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation of a random variable expected about its mean.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.

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Thermal energy

The term "thermal energy" is used loosely in various contexts in physics and engineering, generally related to the kinetic energy of vibrating and colliding atoms in a substance.

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Time

Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.

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TNT equivalent

TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion. Electronvolt and TNT equivalent are units of energy.

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Top quark

The top quark, sometimes also referred to as the truth quark, (symbol: t) is the most massive of all observed elementary particles.

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Tritium

Tritium or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with half-life ~12.3 years.

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Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray

In astroparticle physics, an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) is a cosmic ray with an energy greater than 1 EeV (1018 electronvolts, approximately 0.16 joules), far beyond both the rest mass and energies typical of other cosmic ray particles. Electronvolt and ultra-high-energy cosmic ray are particle physics.

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Unit of measurement

A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity.

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Units of energy

Energy is defined via work, so the SI unit of energy is the same as the unit of work – the joule (J), named in honour of James Prescott Joule and his experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat.

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Up quark

The up quark or u quark (symbol: u) is the lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle, and a significant constituent of matter.

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Uranium-235

Uranium-235 (235U or U-235) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium.

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Vacuum

A vacuum (vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter.

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Violet (color)

Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum.

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Visible spectrum

The visible spectrum is the band of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).

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Voltage

Voltage, also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension is the difference in electric potential between two points.

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2019 redefinition of the SI base units

In 2019, four of the seven SI base units specified in the International System of Quantities were redefined in terms of natural physical constants, rather than human artifacts such as the standard kilogram.

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See also

Electron

• Atomic nucleus
• Bohr model of the chemical bond
• Classical electron radius
• Delta ray
• Dirac membrane
• Ecton (physics)
• Electride
• Electron
• Electron beam
• Electron bubble
• Electron density
• Electron diffraction
• Electron excitation
• Electron mass
• Electron microscopy
• Electron multiplier
• Electron precipitation
• Electron scattering
• Electron shell
• Electronic correlation
• Electronvolt
• Free electron model
• Independent electron approximation
• Inner sphere electron transfer
• Kohn–Sham equations
• Mixed-valence complex
• One-electron universe
• Outer sphere electron transfer
• Paser
• Phonon drag
• Photoelectrochemical process
• Plum pudding model
• Positron
• Positron emission
• Prehydrated electrons
• Proton-to-electron mass ratio
• Relativistic runaway electron avalanche
• Scattering amplitude
• Secondary emission
• Thomson problem
• Townsend discharge

Units of chemical measurement

• DKH
• Dalton (unit)
• Dextrose equivalent
• Electrochemical equivalent
• Electronvolt
• Gram per cubic centimetre
• Joule per mole
• Katal
• Kilocalorie per mole
• Kilogram per cubic metre
• Log reduction
• Mole (unit)
• Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry

Units of energy

• A Cubic Mile of Oil
• Barrel of oil equivalent
• Billion cubic metres of natural gas
• British thermal unit
• Calorie
• Electronvolt
• Erg
• Foe (unit)
• Foot-pound (energy)
• Foot-poundal
• Gasoline gallon equivalent
• Hartree
• Horsepower-hour
• Joule
• Kilokaiser
• Kilopondmetre
• Kilowatt-hour
• Orders of magnitude (energy)
• Prout (unit)
• Quad (unit)
• Rydberg constant
• TNT equivalent
• Therm
• Thermie
• Tonne of oil equivalent
• Units of energy
• Watt-hour per kilogram

Voltage

• Capacitance
• Dynamic voltage scaling
• Electric potential
• Electric potential energy
• Electromotive force
• Electronvolt
• Extra-low voltage
• High voltage
• Kirchhoff's circuit laws
• Multi-level converter
• Ohm's law
• Orders of magnitude (voltage)
• Voltage
• Voltage divider
• Voltage regulation
• Voltmeters

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt

Also known as BeV, EeV, Electron Volt, Electron volts, Electron-volt, Electron-volts, Electronvolt (mass), Electronvolts, Electrovolt, GeV, Gigaelectronvolt, KeV, Kiloelectronvolt, MeV, Mega electronvolt, Megaelectronvolt, Millielectronvolt, One million electron volt, PeV, Petaelectronvolt, TeV, Teraelectronvolt, Yottaelectronvolt, .

, Muon, Natural units, Neutral particle oscillation, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion, Nuclear physics, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear weapon yield, Observable universe, Oh-My-God particle, Order of magnitude, Orders of magnitude (energy), Particle physics, Photoelectric effect, Photon energy, Phototube, Physics, Picosecond, Planck constant, Planck units, Plasma (physics), Plutonium-239, Positron, Proton, Pythagorean theorem, Red, Relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution, Room temperature, Scattering length, Scintillation (physics), Silicon, Solid-state physics, Speed of light, Standard deviation, Sun, Temperature, Thermal energy, Time, TNT equivalent, Top quark, Tritium, Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, Unit of measurement, Units of energy, Up quark, Uranium-235, Vacuum, Violet (color), Visible spectrum, Volt, Voltage, 2019 redefinition of the SI base units.