Anion An anion from the Greek word???, meaning «up», is an ion with more
electrons than protons, giving it a net negative charge (since electrons are negatively charged and protons are positively charged)» The opposite is a cation.
Flipping through your old chemistry notes, you'll recall that negative ions are atoms or molecules with more
electrons than protons.
A tri-anion particle is a combination of atoms that contains three more
electrons than protons.
Not exact matches
if you want hydrogen 1
proton, 1 neutron, 1
electron and you have 1 atom of hydrogen; the hard part is it would cost us more energy
than we can afford at this point in our technological stage to accomplish such a feat.
Likewise, the ratio of
electrons to
protons can not vary by more
than 1 part in 10 to the 37th power or else electromagnetic interactions would prevent chemical reactions.
Likewise, the ratio of
electrons to
protons can not vary by more
than 1 part in 1037 or else electromagnetic interactions would prevent chemical reactions.
Einstein wrote in 1920: «According to our present conceptions the elementary particles (that is,
electrons and
protons) are nothing else
than condensations of the electromagnetic field....
Whether a stone or an
electron being attracted to a
proton is intrinsically less wonderful
than the eye or the bacterial flagellum is less clear.
These are considerably stronger
than covalent bonds, held together by multiples of: +1 charges (the same charge as a
proton) and the -1 charge of an
electron, creating a neutral formula.
That fact suggests that the particles must be more massive
than about 0.3 billion
electron volts — about a third the mass of a
proton — the researchers calculate.
For a monopole with twice the minimum charge, Rajantie and Gould determined that magnetic monopoles must be more massive
than about 10 billion
electron volts, going by data from collisions of lead nuclei in the Super
Proton Synchrotron, a smaller accelerator at CERN.
Because a
proton or a neutron is on the order of a million times smaller
than an atom, nuclear fission and fusion typically require energies on the order of millions of
electron volts (MeV).
At that boundary, atmospheric pressures 100,000 times higher
than those at Earth's surface strip
protons and
electrons from the planet's hydrogen.
This huge machine, more
than five miles in diameter, is capable of blasting
protons together with a colossal energy of 14 trillion
electron volts; it will be able to probe distances 1/10, 000 the size of a
proton, perhaps creating a zoo of exotic particles not seen since the Big Bang.
These big bits of atoms, such as gold or silicon atoms stripped of their
electrons, are much more complex
than the
protons that physicists have been accustomed to studying.
«The very idea of using
protons rather
than electrons to move charge encounters intuitive resistance,» says John Roberts, an electrical engineer at Cambridge University in the U.K. «People know how to control
electrons.
Pluto has a thin, wispy atmosphere and probably lacks a magnetic field, so Krimigis isn't expecting to find much more
than a few stray
protons and
electrons.
Why are
protons 2,000 times heavier
than electrons, yet their charges are simply equal and opposite?
By using
electron and positron beams instead of heavier
protons, the ILC will allow physicists to probe particle properties with much greater precision
than they can at the LHC.
Slamming
protons and antiprotons together at 40 tera -
electron volts (40 trillion eV), the SSC would have put out more
than enough energy to create the elusive Higgs boson, sometimes called the «God particle,» which gives other particles their mass.
Muons are about 200 times heavier
than electrons, making them more sensitive to the
proton's size.
Because the strong force holding the
protons and neutrons together is stronger
than the electromagnetic one, knocking the nucleus apart into pieces demands more energy
than removing the
electrons.
This shift is sensitive to the
proton's radius, and muons — which some 200 times more massive
than electrons — make it millions of times easier to measure.
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has already cataloged more
than 60 billion
protons,
electrons and other spaceborne subatomic particles, known as cosmic rays, as they zip by.
For the first time, RHIC is running at a record energy of 500 giga -
electron volts (GeV) per collision, more
than double the previous runs in which polarized
proton beams collided at 200 GeV.
The improvement transformed a catalyst that created two or three oxygen molecules per second to one that produces more
than 100 per second — with a corresponding increase in the production of
protons and
electrons that can be used to create hydrogen fuel.
While about 1,000 times less dense at Pluto's orbit
than at Earth's, solar winds carrying
protons and
electrons, as well as ionized helium and oxygen, gust outward at about 300 to 500 km / s (187 to 311 miles / s).
We've long known that the basic constituents of nature are far more numerous and varied
than the
protons, neutrons and
electrons that many people first learned about in high school.
Once an atom has fewer
electrons, with a negative electrical charge,
than protons, with a positive electrical charge, this atom now has more positive electrical charge
than negative electrical charge - we therefore say that this atom is, itself, positively charged.
When we cover the sizes of atomic particles, I build in a review of negative exponents and powers of ten so that no student believes that
electrons, at about 10 - 27 grams, are bigger
than protons, at about 10 - 24 grams.
Across the continent, people were lining up by the millions on one side or the other of a new binary system, being told they were «positive» or «negative» as if they had turned overnight into
protons and
electrons and everyone spoke of subatomic physics, rather
than of who was going to live and who was going to be shunned, endure terrible suffering, and die.
«What we're seeing is a much more dynamic, much more rapidly changing outer radiation belt
than we expected to see,» said Daniel Baker, principal investigator of the Van Allen Probes Relativistic
Electron Proton Telescope instrument.
The real flat - earthers have more
than doubled - down on their absurd notion that a paltry percentage of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has more power to influence daily weather and hence climate
than the
protons,
electrons, and photons Earth is immersed in from the sun, solar system, galaxy, and universe.