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  • The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection.†   (source)
  • Through the use of electronic mirrors inside the computer, this beam is made to sweep back and forth across the lenses of Hiro's goggles, in much the same way as the electron beam in a television paints the inner surface of the eponymous Tube.†   (source)
  • Babette of electrons and photons, of whatever forces produced that gray light we took to be her face.†   (source)
  • We call these elemental particles protons, neutrons, and electrons.†   (source)
  • Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of dueling emotions.†   (source)
  • He was and is one of the world's leading electron-microscope photographers of viruses.†   (source)
  • He then removed a core sample measuring one centimeter in diameter and two centimeters in length from just below the right knee and analyzed it using an electron microscope, electron microprobe, mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, and X-ray fluorescence.†   (source)
  • The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons.†   (source)
  • TOM STARED at the monitor that displayed what the electron micro-scope had uncovered.†   (source)
  • They asked, "If science explains the behavior of everything, from electrons to galaxies, then who needs God?"†   (source)
  • There he was no more than electrons and words.†   (source)
  • But they had essential ingredients in common: "Social exclusion and the ethnicization of politics …. are the two central elements to violent conflict in Burundi and Rwanda that, like electrons, spin around a core of massive poverty and institutional weakness."†   (source)
  • I will speak from memory—my memory—a memory that is all refracting light slanting through prisms and dreams, a shifting, troubled riot of electrons charged with pain and wonder.†   (source)
  • Electrons chasing each other.†   (source)
  • And then it did …. something with the plasma and got more electricity and less plasma, somehow converting the neutrons and protons of the plasma to electrons?†   (source)
  • I'd rather be a mass of electron tubes than a thing like a centipede-oh yes, I've seen that cartoon in yesterday's Chicago Times!†   (source)
  • (ELECTRON, PROTON, NEUTRON, MESON AND PHOTON) ERASE.†   (source)
  • It was in the room, seeping into the air from pulsing streams of electrons.†   (source)
  • Today's Electron marching band is probably the only one in Arizona with a ukulele.†   (source)
  • A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces.†   (source)
  • He accelerated the particle beam through a jet of xenon, stripping away the electrons.†   (source)
  • Invisibly, electrons bumble down the wires.†   (source)
  • We were the Electrons, in honor of the town's electronics heritage.†   (source)
  • The year before, the basketball Electrons had won only five of twenty-six games.†   (source)
  • The Electrons—champions of all Arizona!†   (source)
  • It echoed from the rafters in the gym: "GO, ELECTRONS!"†   (source)
  • In my mind's eye, I pictured her aiming her incredible zeal and energy exclusively at the Electrons.†   (source)
  • This time the Electrons faced not one but five players better than themselves.†   (source)
  • With five seconds left in the game, the Electrons scored the hundredth point.†   (source)
  • The diagram of the atom has a nucleus, with electrons circling it.†   (source)
  • Wyoh thinks an electron is something about size and shape of a small pea.†   (source)
  • It was a little like electron microscopy, but one step further along the line.†   (source)
  • The nucleus looks like a raspberry, the electrons and their rings look like the planet Saturn.†   (source)
  • Similarly, he was unenthusiastic about the prospects for electron microscopy.†   (source)
  • The men argued that this was merely release of potential energy held in unstable electron levels.†   (source)
  • The electron wavelength is smaller than the quantum of light.†   (source)
  • Are you telling me that electrons and protons aren't the same here, to get down to basics?†   (source)
  • What is an electron but a mathematical concept?†   (source)
  • It means a system crash— a bug-at such a fundamental level that it frags the part of the computer that controls the electron beam in the monitor, making it spray wildly across the screen, turning the perfect gridwork of SNOW cXASH pixels into a gyrating blizzard.†   (source)
  • He insisted on keeping the exact procedure a secret, but it involved simultaneously injecting raw electrons into the accelerator.†   (source)
  • His blood sloshes back and forth inside him like mercury, and out the windows, in a gap in the mist, the network of trenches and artillery below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and Werner feels he is gazing down into the circuitry of an enormous radio, each soldier down there an electron flowing single file down his own electrical path, with no more say in the matter than an electron has.†   (source)
  • Protons have electrons.†   (source)
  • He tries to envision the bouncing pathways of electrons, the signal chain like a path through a crowded city, RF signal coming in here, passing through a grid of amplifiers, then to variable condensers, then to transformer coils ….†   (source)
  • At every game, when the opposing team scores its first basket, a small group of Electrons fans jumps to its feet and cheers.†   (source)
  • Most of all, they said she was the reason why the Mica Electrons were not soon to become Arizona state basketball champions.†   (source)
  • The Electrons had breezed through the regular season undefeated, but now the second season was about to begin: the play-offs.†   (source)
  • On the basketball court, the Electrons have never come close to the success they enjoyed when I was a junior.†   (source)
  • She began with an exaggerated ball-bouncing motion: Dribble, Dribble!
    Sis Boom Bibble!
    We don't bite!
    We don't nibble!
    We just say —
    (sweeping wave)
    "Howwww-dee, friends!"
    (two thumbs pointing to her chest)
    "We're the Electrons!"
    (points to them)
    "Who—are— YYYYYYOU?"
    (turns head to side, cups ear)
    A couple of visiting cheerleaders, maybe a fan or two would call back: "Wildcats!" or "Cougars!" or whatever, but most of them just gaped at her as if to say, Who is this?†   (source)
  • Actually my grades have been pretty good in them this year, but it isn't because I've had a sudden epiphany about proton-electron interaction.†   (source)
  • Protons, neutrons, electrons.†   (source)
  • The Institute hired him to operate its electron microscope, which uses a beam of electrons to make images of small objects, such as viruses.†   (source)
  • I'm electron pusher by trade; I know what wide variety of components can be converted into transmitters.†   (source)
  • Now the slice, sitting on the grid, which was held in place by the tire iron, was positioned in the microscope, centered in the beam of electrons.†   (source)
  • There were minor differences in Electron-density mapping of Andromeda structure as derived from micrographic studies.†   (source)
  • Stone and Leavitt puzzled over the problem for several minutes until they came to the Fourier electron-density scans.†   (source)
  • The best simple explanation had come from the electron microscopist Sidney Polton, also a racing enthusiast.†   (source)
  • In principle, the electron microscope was simple enough: it worked exactly like a light microscope, but instead of focusing light rays, it focused an electron beam.†   (source)
  • For one thing, because it used electrons instead of light, the inside of the microscope had to be a vacuum.†   (source)
  • Here, the probability of finding electrons was mapped for the structure on a chart that resembled a topological map.†   (source)
  • In many respects, the EM was not a great deal different from television, and in fact, the image was displayed on a television screen, a coated surface that glowed when electrons struck it.†   (source)
  • Carl and I had done everything together in high school — eyed the girls together, double-dated together, been on the debate team together, pushed electrons together in his home lab.†   (source)
  • He really was let alone; he really was encouraged to do individual work; he really was associated with men who thought not in terms of poetic posters or of two-thousand-dollar operations but of colloids and sporulation and electrons, and of the laws and energies which governed them.†   (source)
  • There was something heavy and languorous about her body, a kind of ray or electron that intrigued and lured him in spite of himself.†   (source)
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