Electron Volt -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Electron Volt

A unit of energy, abbreviated eV, equal to the work requires to move one electron through a potential difference of 1 volt. The eV is a small unit of energy, so mega-electron volts (MeV) and giga-electron volts (GeV) are commonly encountered. The masses of elementary particles are frequently expressed in term of electron volts by making use of Einstein's famous equation , where m is the mass of the particle and c is the speed of light.


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