How to Use atom in a Sentence

atom

noun

• There is not an atom of truth to what he said.
• Occasionally, a rebel hops to an atom on the same grid.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Godzilla served as a terrifying symbol for the atom bomb.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
• Everything in the universe is made up of the smallest fundamental piece of matter called an atom.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2021
• Proteins are chains of amino acid molecules that form a 3D shape based on their atoms’ interactions.
  — Marc Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
• It was built pre-WWII, before fighter jets had been invented or the atom had been split.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2021
• This interaction causes the atoms in Earth's atmosphere to glow, creating a spectrum of color in the night sky.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
• The structures are held together by some of the strongest chemical bonds in nature, including the ones that turn carbon atoms into diamonds.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• But unscrupulous chemists keep tinkering with the molecular structure -- sometimes by altering a single atom -- in order to stay one step ahead of the feds in a constant game of cat and mouse.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 25 Dec. 2020
• Signals from fluoride ions, along with their corresponding atom fluorine, are too weak to detect with standard portable equipment.
  — Lakshmi Supriya, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
• To be fervently pro-nuclear, in the manner of Hoff and Zaitz, is to see in the peaceful splitting of the atom something almost miraculous.
  — Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2021
• The goal of the machine is to be able to accelerate electrons in one stream and collide them with atoms that have been stripped of their own electrons traveling in another stream in the opposite direction.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024
• As a result, these relatively untethered particles are free to move around, hopping from one atom to another, and forming the basis for electricity.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2021
• 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, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom’s center.
  — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024