Editing Electronvolt (section)

== Energy comparisons ==
[[File:Light spectrum.svg|right|frame|'''Photon frequency vs. energy particle in electronvolts'''. The [[photon energy|energy of a photon]] varies only with the frequency of the photon, related by the speed of light. This contrasts with a massive particle of which the energy depends on its velocity and [[rest mass]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Molinaro |first=Marco |date=9 January 2006 |title="What is Light?" |url=http://cbst.ucdavis.edu/education/courses/winter-2006-IST8A/ist8a_2006_01_09light.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129084926id_/http://cbst.ucdavis.edu/education/courses/winter-2006-IST8A/ist8a_2006_01_09light.pdf |archive-date=29 November 2007 |access-date=7 February 2014 |website=[[University of California, Davis]] |series=IST 8A (Shedding Light on Life) - W06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Elert, Glenn |url=http://physics.info/em-spectrum/ |title=Electromagnetic Spectrum, The Physics Hypertextbook |publisher=hypertextbook.com |access-date=2016-07-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729235315/http://physics.info/em-spectrum/ |archive-date=2016-07-29 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vlf.it/frequency/bands.html |title=Definition of frequency bands on |publisher=Vlf.it |access-date=2010-10-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430012219/http://www.vlf.it/frequency/bands.html |archive-date=2010-04-30 }}</ref>
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| γ: [[gamma ray]]s || MIR: mid-infrared || HF: [[High frequency|high freq.]]
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| HX: hard [[X-ray]]s || FIR: far infrared || MF: [[Medium frequency|medium freq.]]
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| SX: soft X-rays || [[radio waves]] || LF: [[Low frequency|low freq.]]
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| EUV: extreme [[ultraviolet]] || EHF: [[Extremely high frequency|extremely high freq.]] || VLF: [[Very low frequency|very low freq.]]
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| NUV: [[near ultraviolet]] || SHF: [[Super high frequency|super high freq.]] || ULF: [[Ultra low frequency|ultra-low freq.]]
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| [[visible light]] || UHF: [[Ultra high frequency|ultra high freq.]] ||SLF: [[Super low frequency|super low freq.]]
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| NIR: near [[infrared]]||VHF: [[Very high frequency|very high freq.]] ||ELF: [[Extremely low frequency|extremely low freq.]]
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|}]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Energy || Source
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| {{val|3e58|u=[[quetta-|Q]]<nowiki/>eV}} || [[mass-energy]] of all [[Baryon|ordinary matter]] in the [[observable universe]]<ref name="nasa">{{cite web |last=Lochner |first=Jim |date=11 February 1998 |others=Help from: Kowitt, Mark; Corcoran, Mike; Garcia, Leonard |title=Big Bang Energy |url=http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980211b.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819120709/http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980211b.html |archive-date=19 August 2014 |access-date=26 December 2016 |website=[[NASA]]}}</ref>
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| {{val|52.5|u=[[quetta-|Q]]<nowiki/>eV}} || energy released from a 20&nbsp;[[TNT equivalent|kiloton of TNT equivalent]] explosion (e.g. the [[nuclear weapon yield]] of the [[Fat Man]] [[fission bomb]])
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| {{val|12.2|u=[[ronna-|R]]<nowiki/>eV}} || the [[Planck energy]]
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| {{val|10|u=[[yotta-|Y]]<nowiki/>eV}} || approximate [[grand unification energy]]
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| {{val|300|u=[[exa-|E]]<nowiki/>eV}} || first [[ultra-high-energy cosmic ray]] particle observed, the so-called [[Oh-My-God particle]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baez |first=John |date=July 2012 |title=Open Questions in Physics |url=https://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/General/open_questions.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311021253id_/https://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/General/open_questions.html |archive-date=11 March 2020 |access-date=19 July 2012 |website=[[DESY]]}}</ref>
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| {{val|62.4|u=[[exa-|E]]<nowiki/>eV}} || energy consumed by a 10-watt device (e.g. a typical<ref>{{Cite web |title=How Many Watts Does a Light Bulb Use? |url=https://www.energysage.com/electricity/house-watts/how-many-watts-does-a-light-bulb-use/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=EnergySage |language=en}}</ref> [[LED light bulb]]) in one second ({{val|10|u=W}} = {{val|10|u=J/s}} ≈ {{val|6.24|e=19|u=eV/s}})
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| {{val|2|u=[[peta-|P]]<nowiki/>eV}} || the highest-energy neutrino detected by the [[IceCube]] neutrino telescope in Antarctica<ref>{{cite web|url=http://icecube.wisc.edu/news/view/227|title=A growing astrophysical neutrino signal in IceCube now features a 2-PeV neutrino|date=21 May 2014 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319072501/http://icecube.wisc.edu/news/view/227|archive-date=2015-03-19}}</ref>
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| {{val|14|u=TeV}} || designed proton center-of-mass collision energy at the [[Large Hadron Collider]] (operated at 3.5 TeV since its start on 30 March 2010, reached 13 TeV in May 2015)
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| {{val|1|u=TeV}} || {{val|0.1602|u=μJ}}, about the kinetic energy of a flying [[mosquito]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glossary |url=http://cms.web.cern.ch/content/glossary#E |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211085558id_/http://cms.web.cern.ch/content/glossary#E |archive-date=11 December 2013 |access-date=18 August 2014 |website=[[Compact Muon Solenoid]] |publisher=[[CERN]] |at=Electronvolt (eV)}}</ref>
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| {{val|172|u=GeV}} || [[rest mass energy]] of the [[top quark]], the heaviest [[elementary particle]] for which this has been determined
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| {{val|125.1|0.2|u=GeV}} || [[rest mass energy]] of the [[Higgs boson]], as measured by two separate detectors at the [[Large Hadron Collider|LHC]] to a certainty better than [[Standard deviation|5 sigma]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=ATLAS |last2=CMS |author-link1=ATLAS experiment|author-link2=Compact Muon Solenoid|arxiv=1503.07589 |title= Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments|journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=114 |issue=19 |pages=191803 |date=26 March 2015 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.191803 |doi-access=free |pmid=26024162 |bibcode=2015PhRvL.114s1803A }}</ref>
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| {{val|210|u=MeV}} || average energy released in [[Nuclear fission|fission]] of one [[Plutonium-239|Pu-239]] atom
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| {{val|200|u=MeV}} || approximate average energy released in [[nuclear fission]] of one [[U-235]] atom.
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| {{val|105.7|u=MeV}} || [[rest mass energy]] of a [[muon]]
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| {{val|17.6|u=MeV}}|| average energy released in the [[nuclear fusion]] of [[deuterium]] and [[tritium]] to form [[He-4]]; this is {{val|0.41|u=PJ}} per kilogram of product produced
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| {{val|2|u=MeV}} || approximate average energy released in a [[nuclear fission]] neutron released from one [[U-235]] atom. 
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| {{val|1.9|u=MeV}} || [[rest mass energy]] of [[up quark]], the lowest-mass quark.
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| {{val|1|u=MeV}} || {{val|0.1602|u=pJ}}, about twice the [[rest mass energy]] of an electron
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| {{val|1|to|10|u=keV}} || approximate [[thermal energy]], [[kT (energy)|{{math|''k''<sub>B</sub>''T''}}]], in [[nuclear fusion]] systems, like the core of the [[sun]], [[Magnetic confinement fusion|magnetically confined plasma]], [[Inertial confinement fusion|inertial confinement]] and [[nuclear weapon]]s
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| {{val|13.6|u=eV}} || the energy required to [[ion]]ize [[hydrogen atom|atomic hydrogen]]; [[Molecular bond|molecular]] [[bond energy|bond energies]] are on the [[orders of magnitude|order]] of {{val|1|u=eV}} to {{val|10|u=eV}} per bond
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| {{val|1.65|to|3.26|u=eV}} || range of [[photon energy]] <math>(\tfrac{hc}{\lambda})</math> of [[visible spectrum]] from [[red]] to [[Violet (color)|violet]]
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| {{val|1.1|u=eV}} || energy <math>E_g</math> required to break a [[covalent]] bond in [[silicon]]
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| {{val|720|u=meV}} || energy <math>E_g</math> required to break a [[covalent]] bond in [[germanium]]
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| <&nbsp;{{val|120|u=meV}}
| upper bound on the [[rest mass energy]] of [[neutrino]]s (sum of 3 flavors)<ref name="Mertens">
 {{cite journal
  |title=Direct neutrino mass experiments
  |journal=Journal of Physics: Conference Series
  |volume=718 |issue=2 |page=022013 |year=2016
  |first1=Susanne |last1=Mertens
  |arxiv=1605.01579
  |bibcode=2016JPhCS.718b2013M
  |doi=10.1088/1742-6596/718/2/022013
  |s2cid=56355240
 }}</ref>
|-
|{{val|38|u=meV}}
|[[Kinetic theory of gases|average kinetic energy]], {{Math|{{sfrac|3|2}}}}[[kT (energy)|{{math|''k''<sub>B</sub>''T''}}]],  of one gas molecule at [[room temperature]]
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| {{val|25|u=meV}} || [[thermal energy]], [[kT (energy)|{{math|''k''<sub>B</sub>''T''}}]], at room temperature
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| {{val|230|u=μeV}} || [[thermal energy]], [[kT (energy)|{{math|''k''<sub>B</sub>''T''}}]], at the [[cosmic microwave background]] radiation temperature of ~2.7&nbsp;[[kelvin]]
|}

=== Molar energy ===
One mole of particles given 1&nbsp;eV of energy each has approximately 96.5&nbsp;kJ of energy – this corresponds to the [[Faraday constant]] (''F'' &asymp; {{val|96485|u=C⋅mol<sup>−1</sup>}}), where the energy in joules of ''n'' moles of particles each with energy ''E''&nbsp;eV is equal to ''E''·''F''·''n''.