All 17 Uses of
atom
in
Dune
- Others in like circumstances have become renegade Houses, taking family atomics and shields and fleeing beyond the Imperium.†
Book 1
- Even if we were attacked with atomics?†
Book 1
- Barring atomics, I know of no explosive powerful enough to destroy a large worm entirely.†
Book 1
- A lasgun-shield explosion was a dangerous variable, could be more powerful than atomics, could kill only the gunner and his shielded target.†
Book 1
- " "And who could tell after the blast if the explosion wasn't atomic?" he asked.†
Book 1 *
- Our immediate concern is our family atomics.†
Book 1
- And she thought: Blackmail with the family atomics as a threat to the planet and its spice—that's what he has in mind.†
Book 1
- Not the family atomics!†
Book 2
- She began recognizing familiar structures, atomic linkages: a carbon atom here, helical wavering …. a glucose molecule.†
Book 2
- She began recognizing familiar structures, atomic linkages: a carbon atom here, helical wavering …. a glucose molecule.†
Book 2
- "My Duke," Gurney said, "my chief worry is the atomics.†
Book 3
- " "Those people up there won't use atomics against us," Paul said.†
Book 3
- It's fear, not the injunction that keeps the Houses from hurling atomics against each other.†
Book 3
- The language of the Great Convention is clear enough: 'Use of atomics against humans shall be cause for planetary obliteration.'†
Book 3
- You have violated the Convention, used atomics against —†
Book 3
- "I used atomics against a natural feature of the desert," Paul said.†
Book 3
- Its chief rule prohibits the use of atomic weapons against human targets.†
Book Term
Definition:
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(atom) the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means; comprised of a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by orbiting electrons