electron

UK /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɒn/ · US /ɪˈlɛk.tɹɑn/

Etymology Blend of electric + ion, coined by Anglo-Irish scientist George Stoney in 1891, changed by him multiple times from an earlier electrolion and original electrine (used as early as 1874) as the name for the electric charge associated with a univalent ion. Compare electro-, -on. The particle ("corpuscule") was discovered in 1896. The name electrion was proposed for the particle in 1906 but curtailed because Hendrik Lorentz preferred electron.

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antielectron, Auger electron, Auger electron spectroscopy, coelectron, cryoelectron, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-transmission electron microscopy, dielectron, electride, electrino, electron affinity, electronation, electron avalanche, electron beam, electron capture, electron capture detector, electron carrier, electron cloud, electron configuration, electron cryomicroscopy, electron crystal, electron density, electron donor, electron gap, electron gun, electron hole, electronize, electronlike, electron micrograph, electron microscope, electron microscopy, electron multiplier, electron neutrino, electron number, electronogram, electron pair, electron paramagnetic resonance, electron shell, electron spin resonance, electron transfer, electron transfer reaction, electron tube, electron volt, electron wave function, free electron, immunoelectron, immunogold electron microscopy, interelectron, monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope, multielectron, photoelectron, quasielectron, scanning electron microscope, scanning transmission electron microscope, selectron, surface-conduction electron-emitter display, thermoelectron, three-center two-electron bond, transferred electron device, transmission electron diffraction, transmission electron microscope, transmission electron microscopy, unpaired electron, valence electron

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electronic, electronics