How to Use electron volt in a Sentence

electron volt

noun
  • Particle physicists, however, use a far smaller unit called an electron volt (or eV).
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The current prototype has a capacity of only a few billion electron volts, barely enough to power anything.
    — New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2026
  • More than 240 of them were needed to attain particle energies of up to 50 billion electron volts.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Specifically, a sterile neutrino weighing one or two electron volts, a unit of mass and energy, seemed to tie everything together.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But in an analysis published in December 2025, Katrin scientists saw no sign of a sterile neutrino with a mass of around an electron volt.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Partial but significant signal STAR’s new data show exactly such a dip around 20 billion electron volts.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In April 2025, after scrutinizing hundreds of millions of electrons, the collaboration found that the neutrino mass can’t exceed half an electron volt.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • On an untreated surface, removing a sulfur atom requires around 30 electron volts, but that threshold drops to roughly 10 electron volts with fluorine treatment and about 14 electron volts with oxygen, lowering the risk of damaging deeper layers.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026
  • Two neutrinos, each carrying about 100 trillion electron volts of energy, were both consistent with having come from the same source, NGC 7469, a galaxy with an active core about 220 million light-years away.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The 200+200 giga-electron volt proton-proton collider was designed to use advanced superconducting magnets cooled by a massive helium refrigeration system to produce high-energy collisions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Reducing the sulfur-removal threshold to around 10 or 14 electron volts significantly expands that safety window, providing manufacturers with a more practical operating range in which the top layer can be removed cleanly while preserving the structural integrity of the material below.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026
  • Physicists don’t yet have the data or the computational power to say whether a more extended neutrino family containing two, three, or more electron-volt sterile neutrinos — or heavier sterile neutrinos weighing many electron volts — could help explain LSND, Miniboone, or the gallium anomaly.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected ultra-powerful gamma rays—reaching energies of about one quadrillion electron volts (PeV)—coming from a seemingly ordinary stellar remnant.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 26 Apr. 2026

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