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- noun Plural form of
photon .
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Examples
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They discovered that light comes in discrete packets, or quanta, which we call photons
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Traveling at almost the speed of light (and therefore "relativistic"), these feather weight electrons collide with photons from the cosmic microwave background.
Big Chunk Of The Universe Is Missing — Again | Impact Lab 2007
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Electromagnetic radiation is emitted in discrete units known as photons that travel at the speed of light as electromagnetic waves.
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The photons from the sun are necessary for life on earth.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 - Information for the Public 2004
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Just as the energy in waves of light is carried in quantized particle-like units called photons, so, too, is plasmonic energy carried in quasi-particles called plasmons.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Just as the energy in waves of light is carried in quantized particle-like units called photons, so, too, is plasmonic energy carried in quasi-particles called plasmons.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Just as the energy in waves of light is carried through space in discrete or quantized particle-like units called photons, so, too, is the energy in waves of charged gas (plasma) carried in quantized particle-like packets called plasmons, as they travel along metallic surfaces.
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Just as the energy in waves of light is carried through space in discrete or quantized particle-like units called photons, so, too, is the energy in waves of charged gas (plasma) carried in quantized particle-like packets called plasmons, as they travel along metallic surfaces.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Just as the energy in waves of light is carried through space in discrete or quantized particle-like units called photons, so, too, is the energy in waves of charged gas (plasma) carried in quantized particle-like packets called plasmons, as they travel along metallic surfaces.
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a delay of a few microseconds with respect to the photons from the annihilation event.
Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 1995
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