How to Use atom in a Sentence
atom
noun- There is not an atom of truth to what he said.
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The pathway to humans on Mars lies through the atom, split.
— David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022 -
The War Is Never Over, is worth a thousand and one atom bombs.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021 -
The atom bomb could fall, or Martians could arrive, all that sort of thing.
— Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024 -
This means that an electron is mostly free to move from one atom to the next.
— WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023 -
This means an electron can belong to more than one atom at the same time.
— Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2022 -
The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom’s center.
— Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021 -
The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom's center.
— Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021 -
The process converts some of the total mass of the atoms into energy.
— Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023 -
At this lab, the secrets of the atom — and the universe — are being discovered.
— USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023 -
In other words, the atom has absorbed some light and has not absorbed any light at the same time.
— Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022 -
One atom’s magnet points up, while the other points down.
— Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022 -
Nudge one oxygen atom a bit to the left, and the temperature won’t budge.
— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022 -
Meanwhile, out the window, a fiery atom bomb explodes in the distance.
— Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022 -
When the atoms touched the ring, they were found to stick to it, flowing freely along that edge in one direction.
— Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2024 -
The invention of the atom bomb has shaped both history and ecosystems across the globe.
— Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023 -
The record was set by the edge of a graphene sheet, meaning the gate is only a single carbon atom across.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022 -
Imagine a rock smashing into the ground with a force 150 times greater than an atom bomb.
— Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2022 -
That work set the stage for quantum mechanics to explain the entropy of a gas in terms of its atoms in the 1900s.
— Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024 -
The horizon size of such a PBH is merely a thousand times larger than the size of an atom.
— Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 6 June 2021 -
Like, is anyone talking about the inventor of the atom bomb in their lives?
— Zack Sharf, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024 -
This happened despite the fact that the Bob atom always started out in its ground state.
— Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023 -
Most members of the filmmaking crew tell THR that the atom sequences were the most challenging on the film.
— Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024 -
The fission reactor starts with a heavy atom like uranium-235 and hits it with a neutron.
— Rhett Allain, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020 -
When the atoms jump between states, their properties change.
— Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024 -
And that subsequence super atom is very good at slowing the speed of light.
— Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022 -
For context, the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima 75 years ago had a yield of about 15 kilotons.
— Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2020 -
Bottom-up synthesis builds the carbon sheets one atom at a time over a few hours.
— Kevin Wyss, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022 -
The key genes change the chemical structure of the pigment molecule through the actions of an enzyme which adds just one atom of oxygen to the pigment.
— Simon Griffith, JSTOR Daily, 5 Dec. 2024 -
The moiré features large hexagonal cells that act like artificial atoms, hosting electrons.
— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
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