photoelectricin a sentence
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Studying the photoelectric effect illuminated the quantum nature of light and electrons and influenced the formation of the concept of wave-particle duality.
photoelectric = relating to electricity generated by light or affected by light
- Miniature microphones, photoelectric recharging cells, high-capacity RAM chips.† (source)
- It did this after first weighing each petri dish, and examining any growth with its photoelectric eye.† (source)
- Jason was about to turn around and head for the tackle shop and a flashlight when suddenly, as if on photoelectric cue, blue and red floods came alive, shooting their wide circles of light up from the ground into the palms above.† (source)
- He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect.† (source)
- Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photoelectric cells, and a cubic metre of printed circuits could perform.† (source)
- That strip of foil at the end of the wire is a combination microphone and photoelectric recharging cell.† (source)
- ANDROMEDA MEDIA DESIG-779 ATMOSPHERE DESIG - 223 LUMINDESIG- L87 UV/H1 FINAL SCANNER PRINT An example of a scanner printout from the photoelectric eye that examined all growth media.† (source)