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|10|u=[[yotta-|Y]]<nowiki/>eV}} || approximate [[grand unification energy]]
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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|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|105.7|u=MeV}} || [[rest mass energy]] of a [[muon]]
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| {{val|0.511|u=MeV}} || [[rest mass energy]] of an electron
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| {{val|13.6|u=eV}} || 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|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|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]]
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|}

=== 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''.