RADIOACTIVITY.EU.COM

icon THE PHENOMENON

THE PHENOMENON

icon IN DAILY LIFE

IN DAILY LIFE

icon QUESTION OF DOSES

QUESTION OF DOSES

icon AT THE DOCTOR’S

AT THE DOCTOR’S

icon At the laboratory

At the laboratory

icon At the museum

At the museum

icon NUCLEAR ENERGY

NUCLEAR ENERGY

icon RADIOACTIVE WASTE

RADIOACTIVE WASTE

A general public knowledge base dedicated to radioactivity created and maintained by the french physics community

The electron is an extremely light corpuscle, considered one of the fundamental constituents of matter. Carrying an elementary unit e of electric charge, it is moving around the nucleus of the atom. Some nuclei, radioactive β- (bêta-moins), (beta-minus), expel electrons.

Similar definition(s) :

Positron (positive electron)

Back to glossary