What is an Electron?

You learned what an electron is in school… or DID YOU? You probably learned that it’s a “negatively charged particle” but there’s *so* much more to these weird, wild little particles than that.

#electrons #atoms #theoreticalchemistry

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzFnGRfsfE&t=1s

How Oxygen Masks Brought Down a Plane:
https://youtu.be/KejaV70RWPk

What Are Isotopes? | Chemistry Basics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyviEsmrVp0

Forever Chemicals:
https://youtu.be/tqKEG5LxPiY

Why is Carbon the Key to Life? (On Earth, Anyway):
https://youtu.be/VUiDwrM2YPI

Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver

Writer/Host:
George Zaidan

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Michael E. Peskin, PhD
Paul Lujan, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD


Sources:

Interview with Michael Peskin PhD

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/how-to-film-an-electron-the-chemistry-of-the-improbable/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/05/einstein-equation-emc2-special-relativity-alok-jha

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10104

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25932-6.pdf

https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2021/10/04/researchers-measure-breakup-single-chemical-bond

https://www.wired.com/story/how-did-people-find-the-fundamental-charge-with-drops-of-oil/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211004203433.htm

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00117.html

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00213/full#h12

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/molecule/NaCl.html#c1

https://web1.eng.famu.fsu.edu/~dommelen/quantum/style_a/pr.html

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