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  • By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world.  (source)
    atomic = related to the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
  • It came as close to photographing atoms as science could manage.  (source)
    atoms = the smallest parts of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means; comprised of a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by orbiting electrons
  • They had teethed away the last atoms of its substance.  (source)
    atoms = multiple of the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
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  • He used a word that sounded like "atomic."†  (source)
    atomic = related to the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
  • ...the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two.  (source)
    atoms = a group of the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
  • We've mastered the energy of the atom and reached the Information Age.†  (source)
    atom = the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
  • We develop an atom bomb, you develop an atom bomb.†  (source)
    atom bomb = exceedingly powerful bomb whose energy comes from the splitting of atoms
  • Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.†  (source)
  • My brothers liked it if we got one with F-16 fighter jets or nuclear missiles, though my father said if our politicians hadn't spent so much money on building an atomic bomb we might have had enough for schools.†  (source)
    atomic = related to the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
  • She would set about parsing the constraint down to its atoms, and try to eke a way through.†  (source)
    atoms = the smallest parts of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
  • And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom").†  (source)
    atom = the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
  • Did they drop the atom bomb?†  (source)
    atom bomb = exceedingly powerful bomb whose energy comes from the splitting of atoms
  • "I used atomics against a natural feature of the desert," Paul said.†  (source)
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