Do electrons experience air resistance?

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Intuition says no, because they’re subatomic and would there for not be impeded by air molecules. But it seems like they could potentially collide with air molecules which would stop their motion, there for being resistance given by air; air resistance.

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They won’t make it very far in a gas, they’re massively electrically charged for their miniscule mass and will deflect away or blow up the first molecule they stumble across.

So sort of?

Air resistance is a bulk phenomenon that doesn’t really apply to individual particles.

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