Atom

//ˈætəm//

"Atom" in a Sentence (16 examples)

A water molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

The universe is a gigantic atom and everything is affected by it.

Who first split the atom?

Scientists long ago ceased to believe that the atom is the smallest unit of matter.

An atom is made out of protons, neutrons and electrons.

Iron Arm Atom protected the country from danger.

In the year 1945 the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

According to Leucippus and Democritus, the atom was indivisible. Today we know that is not true.

As an atom approaches the barycenter of a forming star, it trades potential for kinetic energy: the stuff of heat.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

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Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the water-oxidizing complex, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.

Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.

But at this critical moment the pirate astern sent a mischievous shot and knocked one of the men to atoms at the helm.

"Doctor, tell me one word more," said Theodore, quivering with suppressed emotion. "How do you think it will end?" / "I have hardly the faintest atom of hope," answered this honest, earnest man.

We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty.

In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line.

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