5 sentences with “electrons”

X-rays are invisible electromagnetic energy that is produced when high-speed electrons strike a heavy metal.

It is known that electricity, that flow of innumerable electrons that makes it possible to run a shaver or light up the city of Los Angeles, emits a type of radiation known as "non-ionising".

There is another issue. It is assumed that when protons, electrons and neutrons were created, corresponding antiparticles were inevitably created, and that the slightest friction between them is tantamount to mutual destruction. So how come we are still here?

Matter is divided into two classes: leptons and quarks, analogues of electrons and protons. But in certain cases matter does not listen and theories mutate. Members of the same material family - such as protons and quarks - transform (radioactive decay can transform neutrons into protons).

Physicist Stephen Hawking has enthusiastically supported the so-called "superstring theory", the central idea of which is that the fundamental constituents of matter, negatively charged electrons and other subatomic particles, are actually made of tiny one-dimensional "strings". These can be straight or wavy, and the way they vibrate and interact with each other could explain many features of the physical world.