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million electronvolts

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million electronvolts [′mil·yən i′lek‚trän‚vōlts]
(physics)


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So-called killer electrons, which are charged particles revved up to energies greater than 1 million electronvolts, punch through the skin of spacecraft.
The ions--a searing beam of 30 trillion protons, with energies up to 50 million electronvolts (MeV)--burst from the far side of the target.
The High-Energy Transient Experiment (HETE), an international project involving the United States, France, Italy, and Japan, carries a spectrometer to measure gamma-ray bursts ranging in energy from 6,000 to 1 million electronvolts.
 
 
 
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