What is "electron volts"

Usage examples of "electron volts".

Did it ever occur to you to ask yourself why, for example, Bolzmann's constant should equal zero point zero zero zero zero eight six one seven electron volts per degree Kelvin, and not some other number?

One electron volt is a minuscule bit of energy: It would take five million electron volts to light a fifty-watt lamp.

This would kick the European atom-smasher, already powerful, up to a massive 10 trillion electron volts.

But protons with energies of forty to fifty million electron volts can easily penetrate a quarter-inch of lead, and particles from solar flares with energies of more than fifteen thousand billion electron volts have reached the Earth.

It would take five million electron volts to light a fifty-watt lamp.

At a million electron volts or more U-238 will fission at somewhat lower energies it turns to plutonium.

At a million electron volts or more U - 238 will fission at somewhat lower energies it turns to plutonium.

Frequency is hard gamma, peaking at one point two mega-electron volts.

The energy of these particles varies from tens of thousands to many billions of electron volts.