charged particle
Americannoun
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By analyzing its glow, the team created the most detailed maps ever produced of temperatures and charged particle densities within Saturn's auroral region.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
This makes it especially valuable for studying insulators or magnetic materials that can interfere with charged particle beams.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
Nearly a century ago the theorist Paul Dirac calculated a value, called g, for how much a charged particle should be affected by a magnetic field.
From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2023
As a charged particle streaks through the argon, it will ionize some of the atoms, freeing their electrons.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 28, 2022
When a charged particle bounces from one magnetic pole to the other, it must cross the equatorial plane of Saturn.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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