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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

῎ηλεκτρον

. See

Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called

electrum

[archaic]

Noun.

Amber; also, a mixture of gold with a fifth part of silver.

See also: electron, Electron, electrón, and eléctron

électron m ‎(plural électrons)

(physics) electron (the negatively charged subatomic particles that orbit atoms)