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PHOTOELECTRON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An electron that is emitted from an atom or molecule by an incident photon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("photoelectron" is a kind of...):
electron; negatron (an elementary particle with negative charge)