How to Use atom in a Sentence

atom

noun

• There is not an atom of truth to what he said.
• The Beirut fireball’s vivid red color sets it apart from the aftereffects of an atom bomb, too.
  — Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2020
• Another gas at the top of the list is phosphine, a phosphorous atom bound to three hydrogens.
  — David Grinspoon, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2020
• Typically, the carbon atoms in these bonds, and the atoms attached to them, lie in the same geometric plane.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• In the same way, black phosphorus is composed of many layered sheets of an atom-thick material called phosphorene.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2020
• Every atom and molecule has a unique spectrum, absorbing and emitting very particular shades of light.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020
• This reaction generates a helium atom and a neutron, which carries most of the energy from the reaction.
  — Sophie Blondel, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
• For me, traditional panpsychism (e.g., every atom, molecule, stone or house has experience) makes no sense.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2020
• Feathers became red, for example, when the chain ended with an aldehyde, a chemical group that contains an oxygen and a hydrogen atom attached to a carbon atom.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
• To look for nonlinearities in King plots in the two new studies, both teams used a similar approach: The researchers placed a single atom in a laser trap to hold it in place.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2020
• The microwaves might drive a positronium atom not only directly from the initial quantum state to the final one, but also to it through an intermediary quantum state.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
• Take his fellow physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment in which a cat is trapped in a box with poison that will be released if a radioactive atom decays.
  — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2020
• Phosphine is a relatively simple molecule containing one phosphorus atom and three hydrogen atoms.
  — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024