Atom
Electron
Electron noun - An elementary particle with negative charge.
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Synonyms for Electron
Atom and electron are semantically related in thing topic. You can use "Atom" instead a noun "Electron", if it concerns topics such as particle of matter, particle in an atom.
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- The electron of a hydrogen atom is mostly inside the nucleus, but somewhat outside it, with the amount of the electron existing at any location decreasing with distance from the nucleus.
Source: Useful Notes / Quantum Physics -
Parodied with a Spoof Aesop when Bill goes off to demonstrate how much empty space is in an atom (the nucleus is at the lab, the first electron shell is on a beach several miles away).
Source: Don't Try This at Home - It's a single atom thick, and since the atom is carbon (atomic number 6, very low on the periodic table), it's thinner than you can get pretty much any substance without distributed electron orbitals to stiffen it, and it's essentially the strongest material known that operates on that scale.
Source: Sharpened to a Single Atom
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