elementary charge

American  

noun

Physics.

1. the unit of electric charge of which all free charges found in nature are integral multiples, equal to 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, the charge of the proton.

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Example Sentences

In thin layers and at large enough magnetic fields, this resistance begins to develop discreet steps with values of exactly h/ne2, where h is the Planck's constant, e is the elementary charge, and n is an integer number.

From Science Daily

At Cal Tech, physicist Robert Millikan brought home the first of Southern California’s dozens of Nobel Prizes “for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect.”

From Los Angeles Times

He was the institution’s first Nobel laureate — in physics in 1923, for establishing the elementary charge of the electron.

From Los Angeles Times

The four will be based on Planck's constant, the elementary charge, the Boltzmann constant and the Avogadro constant, respectively.

From Scientific American