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thanks. they were saying this stuff exists at billions of volts, thus my question.



Electron Volts are a unit of energy. It's basically the amount of energy that is released from a single electron travelling through an electric potential difference of one volt. Ten billion electron Volts is a lot of energy for a single particle but it is still one billionth of a single Joule.


Just to give you a perspective, one trillion electronvolts is the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito.




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