positive electron

noun

Physics.

1. positron.

Word History and Origins

Origin of positive electron¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Blackett, described on his blue plaque as a physicist and scientific adviser, was known for his revolutionary work in U-Boat detection, ground-breaking research into cosmic rays and the discovery, with a colleague, of the positive electron.

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The result of their bombardments of boron and other light elements by alpha rays, moreover, had led them to propose that the proton was composed of a neutron and a positive electron, or positron.

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No fundamental positive electron has been isolated which at all corresponds to the negative electron, or corpuscle, as it is called by Sir J. J.

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The nearest approach to a positive electron is the nucleus of the hydrogen atom, which carries a positive charge of the same magnitude as the charge on an electron.

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The hole, he decided, would act like a positive electron.

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