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MeV

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symbol

  1. million electronvolts (10 6 electronvolts)

"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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Verify that this amount of mass converted to energy yields 931.5 MeV.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The nucleus must also emit an α particle of energy 0.26 MeV in the opposite direction.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The nucleus must also emit a β particle of energy 0.26 MeV in the opposite direction.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

That is, they are bound by an average of 8 MeV per nucleon.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

They found that the bombardment of californium with boron ions released α particles which had an energy of 8.6 MeV and decayed with a half-life of 8 ± 2 seconds.

From A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis by Watson, Glen W.

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