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Electrons

"Electrons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Stable elementary particles having the smallest known negative charge, present in all elements; also called negatrons. Positively charged electrons are called positrons. The numbers, energies and arrangement of electrons around atomic nuclei determine the chemical identities of elements. Beams of electrons are called CATHODE RAYS.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Electrons" by people in this website by year, and whether "Electrons" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 36 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2011 and 2014 and 2017 and 2023
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