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electron avalanches

electron avalanches is the plural of electron avalanche.

Meaning of electron avalanche

Noun

electron avalanche (plural electron avalanches)

  1. The process in which a number of free electrons in a transmission medium are subjected to strong acceleration by an electric field and subsequently collide with other atoms of the medium, thereby ionizing them and releasing additional electrons which further the process.

Questions about electron avalanches

What is electron avalanches the plural of?
Electron avalanches is the plural of electron avalanche.

Words near electron avalanches in the dictionary

  1. electromyostimulation
  2. electron
  3. electron affinities
  4. electron affinity
  5. electron avalanche
  6. electron avalanches
  7. electron beam
  8. electron beams
  9. electron capture
  10. electron capture detector
  11. electron capture detectors

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