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electron comparison table

Subject	has definition
beta-particle	Particles first discovered in radioactive β decay - later identified as electrons.
bound electron	Zone in which the electron in atoms reside. Its radius is determined by the quantum principle, its population by the exclusion principle.
free electron	Electron not bound to a nucleus.

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