atom

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Weve photographed the shadow of a single atom.

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(physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

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noun

(physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

noun

(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for atom.

noun

(physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element

noun

(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

See also: molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck

Example sentences

Weve photographed the shadow of a single atom.

We live in the future. We live in the Science Fiction Condition, where we can see under atoms and across the world and across the methane lakes of Titan.

You might think that the different orbitals an atom can have in chemistry are all stationary states, but they're not.

“Entanglement builds up between the state of the coffee cup and the state of the room.”I think you can understand coffee cooling quite well without any quantum stuff - the atoms in the coffee are moving faster than those in the room.

One of the emperor's advisers even mentioned the 'twin shocks' of Soviet invasion and the atom bombs as being gifts in a sense, as it meant the Emperor could say he was forced to surrender and not that Japan "gave up".So it seems clear that the Soviet invasion was core to the decision-making, but not that it was the only concern, and certainly not that the atom bomb was not factored in at all.