electron

     

5.485 799 09(27) × 10–4 u

Trivia about electron

  • The part of an atom that orbits around the nucleus
  • Nobelist George Thomson is the son of J.J. Thomson, a Nobel Prize winner who discovered this negative particle
  • It was the first subatomic particle discovered 100 years ago by J.J. Thomson
  • A positive ion is formed when an atom loses one or more of these
  • If an atom loses one of these, it becomes a cation, a positively charged ion
  • Some say particle physics goes back to the discovery of this particle in 1897
  • An atom or molecule with a single unspoiled one of these is a free radical, man
  • In the Bohr model of the atom, energy is released when one of these jumps to a specified orbit about the nucleus
  • In 1924 Louis Victor de Broglie described the wave-like properties of this basic particle of an atom
  • Of the 3 main particles that make up an atom, this one is the smallest by mass

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