Both Uses of
molecule
in
Girl Interrupted
- The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers.†
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- So when we went to Bailey's in Waverley Square with our retinue of nurses, the arrangement of atoms in our molecule was more complex than it appeared to the engineers' wives sipping coffee at the counter and graciously pretending not to look at us.†
Definition:
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(molecule) the smallest amount of a chemical substance that can exist by itself -- usually consisting of 2 or more atoms