keV
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The original FuZE machine, which was the first to reach temperatures above 1 keV, has since been retired.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025
The spectrum also shows several dips around 7 keV.
From Science Daily • May 8, 2024
“Simulations show that once you get above 50 keV, something remarkable happens—you start seeing images of the shape of the heliosphere,” Brandt says.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 27, 2022
GRB170817A had a fluence of 2.2 × 10−7 erg cm−2 in the 10–1,000 keV energy range, as observed by the Fermi-GBM.
From Nature • Oct. 15, 2017
A doubly charged ion is accelerated to an energy of 32.0 keV by the electric field between two parallel conducting plates separated by 2.00 cm.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
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