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  • He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected …. that the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine …. that there is a single force moving within all of us.†   (source)
  • Smoke: her great-uncle says it is a suspension of particles, billions of drifting carbon molecules.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the reserve oxygen would only be enough to make 100 liters of water (50 liters of 02 makes 100 liters of molecules that only have one 0 each).†   (source)
  • Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules.†   (source)
  • It's crammed full of molecules and vessels endlessly shuttling enzymes and sugars from one part of the cell to another, pumping water, nutrients, and oxygen in and out of the cell.†   (source)
  • Further circuits amused themselves by analyzing the molecular components of the door, and of the humanoids' brain cells.†   (source)
  • At the molecular level, there were no surprises.†   (source)
  • She was a masterpiece of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beautiful her calmness had the magnetic pull of beauty —a stillness so powerful that the molecules realigned themselves around her when she came into a room.†   (source)
  • All the molecules that make up our cells -- carbohydrates, proteins, and fats -- contain the element carbon.†   (source)
  • I'm terrified I'm going to fall, but for some reason I can't move or back away from the edge of the cliff, even as I feel the ground sifting away from underneath me, millions of molecules rearranging themselves into space, into wind: Any second I'm going to fall.†   (source)
  • Not even molecules could escape the time-field, much less a human boy.†   (source)
  • The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers.†   (source)
  • The more foreign molecules penetrate, the higher the pitch of the sound.†   (source)
  • The swiftness and noise of their leaving had put the room in a state of molecular agitation.†   (source)
  • In the library, it monitored the molecular composition of every person who exited, to make sure no one left with a book in their hands or hidden under their clothes.†   (source)
  • His shield had been activated, set low but still enough to slow molecular interchange across the field barrier.†   (source)
  • The carbon molecules in the gasoline aren't finding enough oxygen to combine with and they're just sitting here loading up the plug.†   (source)
  • Long before complex molecules like DNA could be formed, the DNA molecular cells would be oxydized.†   (source)
  • Chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes—gloved hands and machines routinely reaching into bodies and making diagnoses and corrections, so much of human frailty on the one hand and boldness on the other.†   (source)
  • Maybe one of the molecules of iron from the corpse's hemoglobin is in the strand of grass next to my ear.†   (source)
  • Viruses are molecular sharks, a motive without a mind.†   (source)
  • "You know what I mean," she said now, snapping her fingers, as if that action might cause some sort of molecular shift that would jog her memory.†   (source)
  • A group of guys started an "astral projection" circle, where they would sit around a card table and concentrate on breaking down all their molecules into subatomic material and drifting through the fences.†   (source)
  • But I know it's a molecular transporter!'†   (source)
  • The molecular signature of bad breath.†   (source)
  • We were doing the molecular structure of atoms and how they vibrate.†   (source)
  • Time solidifies, ossifies the waiting into molecules of stone, dark microscopic planets that swirl through the universe of my body waiting for light and the morning.†   (source)
  • You could almost see the molecules rearranging.†   (source)
  • Its molecules became agitated.†   (source)
  • Reshaping molecules with his fingers was something he would evidently have to relearn.†   (source)
  • Chemistry is substances, molecules, and their transformations.†   (source)
  • Now we understand more about molecular structure—and particle physicists create matter ex nihilo all the time.†   (source)
  • I want you to take a moment and listen to the beating of your heart, feel its energy Now I want you to feel the energy in this room, the atoms and molecules buzzing in the air.†   (source)
  • What power had given to an unseen arrangement of molecules the power on which their lives depended and the lives of all the men who waited for the eighty boxcars?†   (source)
  • If you could— His voice cracked, and he turned away, staring at the place where Lilith had stood until a moment ago, a bare patch of stone now silvered with scattered molecules of salt.†   (source)
  • Mass is a function of molecular resistance to gravity, and what counts is not what everyone takes to be the traditional determinant of mass but, rather, the expanse and force of the atomic and molecular bonds.†   (source)
  • I make myself push this aside and concentrate on the feel of her skin until I no longer see molecules but Violet.†   (source)
  • The molecular reproduction circled on the screen in colorful dots and spirals.†   (source)
  • "According to Athelkau, the glue creates molecular level connectivity between the chips," Tyler said, shrugging.†   (source)
  • The Demon could sit in a box among air molecules that were moving at all different random speeds, and sort out the fast molecules from the slow ones.†   (source)
  • To her despair, he then proposed to treat her with an Electro-Sensilator, a newly developed and complicated-looking device, shaped rather like a small refrigerator and containing many wires and gauges, which was supposed to rearrange the molecular structure of her spinal bone cells and which he had just acquired ("for a pretty penny," he said, adding to her store of idiomatic English) from world chiropractic headquarters somewhere in Ohio or Iowa—states whose names she always got…†   (source)
  • The molecularly gimmicked goo, I decided, was great stuff.†   (source)
  • The map itself became a center of class activity—the map, a symbol of the world, where Yamacraw was not even a pinprick, not even represented by a molecular dot when compared to the incomprehensible vastness of the world.†   (source)
  • He tore out rack after rack; scattering papers, clusters of piezo crystals, ancient wire recordings, microfilm, molecular transcripts.†   (source)
  • Dylan's body dissolved into smoke, as if his molecules were coming unglued.†   (source)
  • Soon you'll be no more than a cloud of radioactive molecules.'†   (source)
  • The air hummed with power, molecules splitting apart like a nuclear explosion.†   (source)
  • That means hydrogen is forced into the oil molecules.†   (source)
  • At the focal point of two beams, it sets up a field in which molecules can't hold together anymore.†   (source)
  • Long before complex molecules like DNA could be formed, the DNA molecular cells would be oxydized.†   (source)
  • What happened to slow down molecular mutation?†   (source)
  • If there's no hot or cold, how can molecules cool down?†   (source)
  • By the time it reaches the end, the corn is reduced to simple molecules, mostly sugars.†   (source)
  • When it was developed, it was called a Molecular Detachment Device.†   (source)
  • But what fascinates me most, and is the focus of my research, is their molecular evolution rate.†   (source)
  • Space is a vacuum except for heavy molecules.†   (source)
  • Except that where it actually runs into a lot of molecules, it gets stronger and starts over.†   (source)
  • I sensed molecules active in my brain, moving along neural pathways.†   (source)
  • They went to work designing computer molecules and computer brains.†   (source)
  • They can trace everything you say, do and feel to the number of molecules in a certain region.†   (source)
  • What happens when we reduce it to cells and molecules?†   (source)
  • In contrast, X-ray crystallography could outline individual molecules.†   (source)
  • The molecules of my body felt like they were heating up, buzzing so fast they might fly apart.†   (source)
  • She felt that if she got any closer to him, all the molecules in her body might combust.†   (source)
  • Around Jason, the air molecules stopped humming.†   (source)
  • Molecules do not interest her, she doesn't seem able to grasp the Periodic Table.†   (source)
  • I said, "Herr Kamyer, what part does the tea towel play in the molecular structure?"†   (source)
  • And molecules fight categorization--they are poised along several polarities.†   (source)
  • Breaking down molecular structures and then reassembling them at the receiver point.†   (source)
  • As the Demon sat and sorted his molecules into hot and cold, the system was said to lose entropy.†   (source)
  • There are untold billions of molecules in that box.†   (source)
  • But somehow the loss was offset by the information the Demon gained about what molecules were where.†   (source)
  • Fast molecules have more energy than slow ones.†   (source)
  • At a molecular level, yes.†   (source)
  • He turned out to be excellent at Nanotech Biochem, and together he and Jimmy worked on their single-molecular-layer splicing project, managing to produce the required purple nematode using the colour-coder from a primitive seaweed — before schedule, and with no alarming variations.†   (source)
  • Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face.†   (source)
  • I'll spare you the chemistry, but the end result is that five molecules of hydrazine becomes five molecules of harmless N2 and ten molecules of lovely H2.†   (source)
  • This is a non sequitur that has been nibbling on the edges of Hiro's mind for the last ten minutes: Laser light has a particular kind of gritty intensity, a molecular purity reflecting its origins.†   (source)
  • I got up and hugged both his sisters and then watched the kids run around the kitchen with their sorely needed surplus of noise and movement, excited molecules bouncing against each other and shouting, "You're it no you're it no I was it but then I tagged you you didn't tag me you missed me well I'm tagging you now no dumb butt it's a time-out DANIEL DO NOT CALL YOUR BROTHER A DUMB BUTT Mom if I'm not allowed to use that word how come you just used it dumb butt dumb butt," and then,…†   (source)
  • She longs to touch him, but she hesitates: surely if she were to take him in her arms he would blur, then dissolve, into shreds of cloth, into smoke, into molecules, into atoms.†   (source)
  • This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask.†   (source)
  • For a split second, the space around Werner tears in half, as though the last molecules of oxygen have been ripped out of it.†   (source)
  • The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood—and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.†   (source)
  • But among the salivary proteins was a real monster: molecular mass of 1,980, one of the largest proteins known.†   (source)
  • The main reaction chamber could rapidly run through a large number of reactions using different molecular combinations.†   (source)
  • And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing except his skeleton left.†   (source)
  • Wayne Grody, director of the Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, was once a fierce opponent of consent for tissue research.†   (source)
  • Yet now he realized that the centuries of filtration and purification had stripped the liquid until it was no more than a collection of hydrogen and oxygen molecules.†   (source)
  • His field was already biochemistry, and he intended to specialize at the interface between the organic and inorganic worlds now known as molecular biology.†   (source)
  • Lodged in my every cell, along with the DNA, are molecules of topsoil and atrazine and paraquat and anhydrous ammonia and diesel fuel and plant dust, and also molecules of memory: the bracing summer chill of floating on my back in Mel's pond, staring at the sky; the exotic redolence of the dresses in my mother's closet; the sharp odor of wet tomato vines; the stripes of pain my father's belt laid across my skin; the deep chill of waiting for the school bus in the blue of a winter's…†   (source)
  • The air got too full, once, of chemicals, rays, radiation, the water swarmed with toxic molecules, all of that takes years to clean up, and meanwhile they creep into your body, camp out in your fatty cells.†   (source)
  • He realigned his own metabolism to match this threat and change the molecules of the soporific, but he felt a thrill of doubt.†   (source)
  • Its crew of four were ill at ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics—as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.†   (source)
  • Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm.†   (source)
  • Let me recapitulate: Before such complex molecules, of which all life consists, can be formed, at least two conditions must be present: there must be no oxygen in the atmosphere, and there must be access forcosmic radiation.†   (source)
  • When you dissolve the material at a high temperature and then cool the solution, the material sometimes doesn't crystallize out because the molecules don't know how.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, a group of researchers—including a molecular biologist named Richard Axel, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize—infected HeLa cells with HIV.†   (source)
  • There are very few molecular biologists and very few research institutions without commercial affiliations.†   (source)
  • When the time came, each of the Peach Women — to call them by the names by which Boyd and Will soon referred to them — would simply disorganize her molecules, which would then be reassembled via the trees into a new, fresh woman.†   (source)
  • "But if they don't know that matter is made from molecules and atoms, they will never create missiles and satellites.†   (source)
  • But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up into the sky and I think that there are molecules ofMother up there, or in clouds over Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rain forests in Brazil, or in snow somewhere.†   (source)
  • But despite doing everything slowly and having not changed much in two hundred million years, tuatara have a faster rate of molecular mutation than any other known animal.†   (source)
  • Only a few molecules would kill instantaneously…… The hood lay flush against the surface of the lab table.†   (source)
  • An entire chain of molecules confronted her, and she recognized a protein …. a methyl-protein configuration.†   (source)
  • At the moment, the lab was attempting to develop a catalytic reaction as a substitute for molecular construction so that large numbers of molecules would stack themselves into the right arrangement.†   (source)
  • "It used to be, some researcher in Florida had sixty samples in his freezer, then another guy in Utah had some in his," says Kathy Hudson, a molecular biologist who founded the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University and is now chief of staff at NIH.†   (source)
  • The outcome has shown the wisdom of this, since cells and molecules belonging to different organisms have been found to be more alike than the organisms themselves.†   (source)
  • They recycle organic matter with powerful enzymes that can break down organic molecules into simple molecules and minerals.†   (source)
  • Molecules are molecules.†   (source)
  • Immediately the analysis of the saliva was halted, even though a preliminary fractionation showed several extremely high molecular weight proteins of unknown biological activity.†   (source)
  • The field growing and growing, the molecules bursting apart but finding nowhere for the separate atoms to go.†   (source)
  • …M.D., et al. (CV-01065 and 06–2301); Tilousi v. Arizona State University Board of Re gents (04-CV-1290); Metabolite Laboratories, Inc., and Competitive Technologies, Inc., v. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (03–1120); Association for Molecular Pathology et al. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office; Myriad Genetics et al. (case documents online at aclu.org/brca/); and Bearder et al. v. State of Minnesota and MDH (complaint online at cchconline.org/pr/pro31109. php).†   (source)
  • But the samples so far were all made with molecular construction techniques—that is, using a nanoscale molecular probe to stack the molecules one by one, like laying out bricks for a wall.†   (source)
  • …that dated back to the Mesozoic Era 200 million years ago, and that it was basically a living dinosaur, and that tuatara can live to be at least 150 years old, and that the plural of tuatara is tuatara, and that they are the only extant species from the order Rhynchocephalia, and that they were endangered in their native New Zealand, and that he'd written his PhD thesis on tuatara molecular evolution rates, and on and on until the door opened again, and Lyle said, "Dr Peppers, boss."†   (source)
  • Research in molecular genetics had become a vast, multibillion dollar commercial undertaking, and its origins can be traced not to 1953 but to April 1976.†   (source)
  • Then the field dies down, the molecules come back together, and where you had a ship, you now have a lump of dirt with a lot of iron molecules in it.†   (source)
  • But the samples so far were all made with molecular construction techniques—that is, using a nanoscale molecular probe to stack the molecules one by one, like laying out bricks for a wall.†   (source)
  • But as the lead scientist on the project, Wang insisted that the machine would not be shut down until the third set of molecular combinations was finished.†   (source)
  • At the moment, the lab was attempting to develop a catalytic reaction as a substitute for molecular construction so that large numbers of molecules would stack themselves into the right arrangement.†   (source)
  • Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.†   (source)
  • The whole point of space is to give molecules a chance to cool down after they come shooting off the surface of giant stars.†   (source)
  • There's heavy molecules."†   (source)
  • Heavy molecules.†   (source)
  • They dissolved, as the saying goes, in laughter, they practically disappeared into their constituent elements, into atoms and molecules, a couple of girls in a gangster Packard, blown forward in time, and Klara stood on the roof sipping tepid wine and hearing people say, We need theater, and she knew she would tell this story to Miles and she also knew she could never again have a friend like Rochelle or a mother like her mother for that matter and she looked across ledges and parapets…†   (source)
  • I feel lighter, as if I'm shedding matter, losing molecules, calcium from my bones, cells from my blood; as if I'm shrinking, as if I'm filling with cold air, or gently falling snow.†   (source)
  • The power of materialist science to explain everything--from the behavior of the galaxies to that of molecules, atoms, and their submicroscopic components--seems to be inarguable and the principal glory of the modern mind.†   (source)
  • Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked so hard, all alone, to grow.†   (source)
  • My body began to superheat; I was in so much pain my organs seemed to be dissolving into molecules, my skin glowing and steaming.†   (source)
  • But Fenris's howl was unlike anything I'd ever heard—a note of pure rage so deep it seemed to shake me apart, breaking my molecules into random amino acids and icy Ginnungagap run-off.†   (source)
  • These elements would drift up into the sky, react with oxygen to form sulfur trioxide, and then clamp onto water molecules to create a potent compound that would later fall back to earth as toxic acid rain.†   (source)
  • The imperishable answer was, "I find it easier to believe in God than to believe that Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.†   (source)
  • The capsule contains one or more strands of DNA or RNA, which are long molecules that contain the software program for making a copy of the virus.†   (source)
  • If, on the other hand, it was a rainbow of colors, then it was the right thickness, just a few molecules in depth.†   (source)
  • Because the more we understand living things on a molecular level, the clearer it becomes that everything is intelligently designed.†   (source)
  • They said its chemical composition is unsound, it's brittle, it's decomposing molecularly, and it will crack suddenly, without warning …."†   (source)
  • It was true; enzymes acted as catalysts for all chemical reactions, by providing a surface for two molecules to come together and react upon.†   (source)
  • Anyway, physics and biology are the disciplines that most fascinate Pollack—especially molecular biology.†   (source)
  • Being a chemist has helped me to see plainly that things--politics, attitudes, molecules--in the middle can be changed, that we have a choice.†   (source)
  • The Ebola virus particle contains only seven different proteins—seven distinct types of large molecules arranged in a long braided structure that is the stringy Ebola particle.†   (source)
  • Man perceives a blob of color; by integrating the evidence of his sight and his touch, he learns to identity it as a solid object: he learns to identify the object as a table; he learns that the table is made of wood; he learns that the wood consists of cells, that the cells consist of molecules, that the molecules consist of atoms.†   (source)
  • Now we are expected to continue running railroads and to know the minute when a train will arrive after crossing the span of a continent, we are expected to continue running steel mills and to know the molecular structure of every drop of metal in the cables of your bridges and in the body of the airplanes that support you in mid-airwhile the tribes of your grotesque little mystics of muscle fight over the carcass of our world, gibbering in sounds of non-language that there are no…†   (source)
  • The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself.†   (source)
  • There were twenty-four known amino acids, each composed of a half-dozen molecules of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.†   (source)
  • Wherever molecular biology takes us, there might still be a place for Darwin's theory of evolution—in some form."†   (source)
  • For the past couple of decades, discoveries in molecular biology and certain branches of physics have seemed ever more clearly to point toward a created universe.†   (source)
  • She saw the sentences: "It may be possible that after a period of heavy usage, a sudden fissure may appear, though the length of this period cannot be predicted…… The possibility of a molecular reaction, at present unknown, cannot be entirely discounted…… Although the tensile strength of the metal is obviously demonstrable, certain questions in regard to its behavior under unusual stress are not to be ruled out….†   (source)
  • No. "He's a molecular biologist.†   (source)
  • In 1962, he shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Maurice Wilkins and James Watson for discovering the three-dimensional molecular structure of DNA—the double helix.†   (source)
  • "The point is—Crick was unable to square what we now know of molecular biology's complexity with the theory of natural selection, but he was unwilling to suggest a Creator in any spiritual sense."†   (source)
  • Why molecular biology?†   (source)
  • …had nobody to point out celebrities to me if any came that way, and I passed the time mooning and waiting for lunch relief and the three o'clock break, when I would watch Simon at the main stand and admire the business there--where the receipts were something to see--the pour of money and the black molecular circulation of travelers knowing what they wanted in gum, fruit, cigarettes, the thick bulwarks of papers and magazines, the power of the space and the span of the main chandelier.†   (source)
  • But Adam, he is a scientist, and everything is tidy for him, and one molecule of oxygen always behaves the same way when it gets around two molecules of hydrogen, and a thing is always what it is, and so when Adam the romantic makes a picture of the world in his head, it is just like the picture of the world Adam the scientist works with.†   (source)
  • Our guests began to go, and each on leaving informed me of something my wife had promised to bring me to in the near future; it was the theme of the evening that we should all be seeing a lot of each other, that we had formed one of those molecular systems that physicists can illustrate.†   (source)
  • "I can't be rational—and I won't be molecular."†   (source)
  • But when he goes out to slay, he carries a marvel of mechanism that lets loose at the touch of his finger all the hidden molecular energies, and leaves the javelin, the arrow, the blowpipe of his fathers far behind.†   (source)
  • At some point the division had to lead to "entities," which, although composites, were not yet organized and mediated between living and nonliving matter, groups of molecules that formed a transition between mere chemistry and organized life.†   (source)
  • …scarf like Mme. Sazerat; and the oval curve of her cheeks reminded me so strongly of people whom I had seen at home that the suspicion brushed against my mind (though it was immediately banished) that this lady in her creative principle, in the molecules of her physical composition, was perhaps not substantially the Duchesse de Guermantes, but that her body, in ignorance of the name that people had given it, belonged to a certain type of femininity which included, also, the wives of…†   (source)
  • Fools, common men, even common mathematicians, do not know anything of what some general expression may mean to the student of molecular physics.†   (source)
  • You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chopsticks, as to try to interest me about the less carnivora, when I know of what is before me.†   (source)
  • But when one looked at chemical molecules, one found oneself at the edge of a yawning abyss far more mysterious than the one between organic and inorganic nature—at the edge of the abyss between the material and non-material.†   (source)
  • It was warmth, the warmth produced by instability attempting to preserve form, a fever of matter that accompanies the ceaseless dissolution and renewal of protein molecules, themselves transient in their complex and intricate construction.†   (source)
  • The soaked soil is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water.†   (source)
  • And the object of chemistry, Madame Lefrancois, being the knowledge of the reciprocal and molecular action of all natural bodies, it follows that agriculture is comprised within its domain.†   (source)
  • From the under surface of the clouds there are continual emissions of lurid light; electric matter is in continual evolution from their component molecules; the gaseous elements of the air need to be slaked with moisture; for innumerable columns of water rush upwards into the air and fall back again in white foam.†   (source)
  • Many researchers have been able to reverse the process through injections of chemicals which combine with the defective enzymes, changing the molecular shape of the interfering key, as it were.†   (source)
  • Molecules all change.†   (source)
  • —As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.†   (source)
  • …concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies of…†   (source)
  • …entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe…†   (source)
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  • The dense air couldn't hold another molecule of moisture, so when the kettle boiled, heavy droplets swelled on the cool windowpanes.†   (source)
  • It was the same setup as the Egyptian Museum back in December, except this time there were volcanoes and molecule dioramas on the tables instead of pyramids and pharaohs.†   (source)
  • The drug was Phalanxifor, this molecule designed to attach itself to cancer cells and slow their growth.†   (source)
  • Every molecule of air gave off red fire.†   (source)
  • Water molecule radiation frequency at 22,000 MHz†   (source)
  • Then he became fully aware of the throbbing pain that consumed his body, dwelling in every last molecule.†   (source)
  • I stroked his hair, his skin, his brow with my fingertips, tears sliding unchecked down my cheeks, my nose against his, and all the time he watched me silently, studying me intently as if he were storing each molecule of me away.†   (source)
  • It was rich in calcium bicarbonate, which loses a molecule and turns into crystals of calcium carbonate when it dries.†   (source)
  • But, even so, the DNA molecule is too big.†   (source)
  • So I spit in my hand, just a little drop, but Freak says it doesn't matter how much, a single molecule would work, because it's the principle of the thing.†   (source)
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  • Each molecule of hydrazine has four hydrogen atoms in it.†   (source)
  • Every molecule in Jason's body told him he was on enemy ground.†   (source)
  • That's when Japanese chemists discovered an enzyme that could transform glucose into the much sweeter sugar molecule called fructose.†   (source)
  • I think if I could just find the moment, I could take it apart piece by piece, molecule by molecule, until I got down to the atomic level, until I got to the part that was inviolate and essential.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," I whispered to Betsie, "only a molecule or two really gets through that little pinhole—and then in the air it expands!"†   (source)
  • He'd already showered at the mine, most likely, but Mom wouldn't let him in the house if he had a molecule of coal anywhere on him.†   (source)
  • Remember, his knives are as sharp as a molecule.†   (source)
  • At sixty-one, when the first of Brittain's group succumbs, Ellerby breaks the code of silence to ask Brittain's Lord why he has forsaken them, but after that the only sounds to be heard are the constant churning of the water interrupted by the slap of feet and calves on eachflip turn, the shrill blast of Lemry's whistle, and the urgent whine of eleven wheezing, oxygen-deprived idiots sucking every last molecule of breathable air out of the chlorine-filled atmosphere.†   (source)
  • The excruciating jolt of pain seemed to penetrate every molecule of his body.†   (source)
  • She began recognizing familiar structures, atomic linkages: a carbon atom here, helical wavering …. a glucose molecule.†   (source)
  • Biologists, for example, have been instinctively led to regard the cell as more interesting than the whole animal; and, since Poincaré's time, the protein molecule as more interesting than the cell.†   (source)
  • He breathed in through his mouth and seemed to hold it in, as though squeezing every last oxygen molecule from it before exhaling again.†   (source)
  • The question is, then, how the first molecule arose.†   (source)
  • He Wanted to Kiss Me I felt it with every nerve, every fiber, every molecule of my being.†   (source)
  • This type of molecule is thought to be the oldest and most "primitive" coding mechanism for life.†   (source)
  • His face was red from crying, his suit was all rumpled, and I could see the distress in every molecule of his body, horrified at the thought of his wife dying.†   (source)
  • The facility was supposed to be dismantled and shipped away, every molecule of it.†   (source)
  • Dempsey threw every molecule of himself into the great achievement of his life—raising money for and founding Tanzania's first teaching hospital, the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center.†   (source)
  • I know from Roland's vision near the end that his world is indeed moving on because Roland's universe exists within a single molecule of a weed dying in some cosmic vacant lot (I think I probably got this idea from Clifford D. Simak's Ring Around the Sun; please don't sue me, Cliff!†   (source)
  • It felt like every molecule of my body was tired, but I couldn't sleep.†   (source)
  • No, no. Maggie, she could move a mountain if she wanted to, one molecule at a time.†   (source)
  • Molecule compression.†   (source)
  • Consider one definite molecule--†   (source)
  • But every inch of its course, every pound of its pressure and the content of every molecule within it, were controlled and made by a conscious intention that had worked upon it for ten years.†   (source)
  • He hugged me, and it healed every molecule in my body and brain and soul.†   (source)
  • You don't have to tell someone you love them if they already know it in every molecule of their body.†   (source)
  • I felt like a molecule suspended in space.†   (source)
  • The Commandant was a homebody, as we shall observe, but one dedicated blindly to duty and a cause; thus he became a mere servomechanism in which a moral vacuum had been so successfully sucked clean of every molecule of real qualm or scruple that his own descriptions of the unutterable crimes he perpetrated daily seem often to float outside and apart from evil, phantasms of cretinous innocence.†   (source)
  • It's the lightning bolt that seared every molecule in your body.†   (source)
  • We also use the term DNA molecule, because DNA is in fact a complex molecule—or macro-molecule.†   (source)
  • The edge is only a single molecule wide.†   (source)
  • Nobody could be analyzing a DNA molecule.†   (source)
  • The full DNA molecule contains three billion of these bases.†   (source)
  • He opens the passenger door, every molecule the gentleman.†   (source)
  • Immediately it began to hum, agitating every molecule in my body.†   (source)
  • Every nerve, every fiber, every molecule screamed!†   (source)
  • Therefore it is not a gas or molecule, or even a large protein or virus.†   (source)
  • HE'S PART OF EVERY LITTLE AND BIG THING AND MOLECULE AND DUST PARTICLE IN THE APARTMENT.†   (source)
  • I wanted him to kiss me, with every nerve, every fiber, every molecule of my being.†   (source)
  • We were sitting next to a big speaker, and the music pierced every molecule in me.†   (source)
  • The molecule was simple in its building blocks.†   (source)
  • He'd been at college less than two months but had already stepped directly into the world he wanted, analyzing the stunning symmetry of the DNA molecule as if he'd crawled inside a glistening cathedral of coiling atoms and climbed the winding, acidic rungs of the helix.†   (source)
  • All of the carbon in our bodies was originally floating in the air, as part of a carbon dioxide molecule.†   (source)
  • This is also significant because this radiation was probably instrumental in forming the first complex molecule.†   (source)
  • DNA was such a large molecule that each species required ten gigabytes of optical disk space to store details of all the iterations.†   (source)
  • But all three types of cell have the same DMA molecule, which contains the whole recipe for the organism in question.†   (source)
  • Cosmic radiation of this nature was the actual energy which caused the various chemical substances on the earth to start combining into a complicated macro-molecule.†   (source)
  • The DNA molecule was so old that its evolution had essentially finished more than two billion years ago.†   (source)
  • A DNA molecule.†   (source)
  • This was important, for in a single simple experiment he had ruled out the possibility that a protein or a chemical molecule of some kind was doing the damage.†   (source)
  • Being a tough guy didn't work for me, and before I could spit out the words, I was using my one remaining molecule of strength to sit up and grab her around the shoulders.†   (source)
  • Every molecule in my body stood up at attention with their hands across their hearts—that is, they would have if they had hands and hearts.†   (source)
  • A polymer was a repeating molecule, built up from thousands of the same units, like a stack of dominos.†   (source)
  • The disease was transmitted by something the size of a cell that was very much bigger than a molecule, or gas droplet.†   (source)
  • Imagine, then, when those perfect white porcelain teeth of yours bite down upon the delectable macaroon the taste you experience is only a molecule's organic distance removed from that of this …."†   (source)
  • The molecule of good always behaves the same way.†   (source)
  • The molecule of bad always behaves the same way.†   (source)
  • But Adam, he is a scientist, and everything is tidy for him, and one molecule of oxygen always behaves the same way when it gets around two molecules of hydrogen, and a thing is always what it is, and so when Adam the romantic makes a picture of the world in his head, it is just like the picture of the world Adam the scientist works with.†   (source)
  • The outcome: an immense vista of reflections that penetrated every liquid molecule.†   (source)
  • But perhaps that constellation is only a chemical molecule.†   (source)
  • Who, then, can calculate the course of a molecule?†   (source)
  • Because the molecule was made up of atoms, and the atom was not even close to being large enough to be called extraordinarily small.†   (source)
  • Standing in the station, with Paris in back of them, it seemed as if they were vicariously leaning a little over the ocean, already undergoing a sea-change, a shifting about of atoms to form the essential molecule of a new people.†   (source)
  • But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way; meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction—possibly a far-reaching explosion—would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions—into the Unknown.†   (source)
  • Each molecule of the gutter bore away a molecule of heat radiating from Gringoire's loins, and the equilibrium between the temperature of his body and the temperature of the brook, began to be established in rough fashion.†   (source)
  • Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch.†   (source)
  • There were atoms in the ancient world even, but since we've learned that you've discovered the chemical molecule and protoplasm and the devil knows what, we had to lower our crest.†   (source)
  • I've seen a molecule of salt water heat up at the surface, sink into the depths, reach maximum density at –2° centigrade, then cool off, grow lighter, and rise again.†   (source)
  • Now, at the moment when the door had opened to admit the cardinal, the nine parts of self-esteem in Gringoire, swollen and expanded by the breath of popular admiration, were in a state of prodigious augmentation, beneath which disappeared, as though stifled, that imperceptible molecule of which we have just remarked upon in the constitution of poets; a precious ingredient, by the way, a ballast of reality and humanity, without which they would not touch the earth.†   (source)
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