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keV

American  
Or kev

abbreviation

  1. kiloelectron volt.


keV British  

abbreviation

  1. kilo-electronvolt

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Compared with earlier techniques, this method produces positronium beams with higher energies, reaching up to 3.3 keV.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026

The spectrum also shows several dips around 7 keV.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

“Simulations show that once you get above 50 keV, something remarkable happens—you start seeing images of the shape of the heliosphere,” Brandt says.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022

GRB170817A had a fluence of 2.2 × 10−7 erg cm−2 in the 10–1,000 keV energy range, as observed by the Fermi-GBM.

From Nature ● Oct. 15, 2017

A doubly charged ion is accelerated to an energy of 32.0 keV by the electric field between two parallel conducting plates separated by 2.00 cm.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

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