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n. - An elementary particle with negative charge that is emitted from an atom or molecule by an incident elementary particle that is its own antiparticle

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  • Castleman and his team -- which includes Samuel Peppernick, a former Penn State graduate student who now is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific Northwest National...
  • I started to build up a microwave laboratory to probe unstable molecules and Michael Lappert encouraged me to use his photoelectron spectrometer to carry out work...
  • “Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low,” Porco said of the...
  • The front of the photoelectron current runs along the anode surface with faster-than-light superluminal speed and provides the in-phase summation of radiation fluxes...
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