All 3 Uses of
atom
in
Fahrenheit 451
- We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022!†
p. 69.9 *atomic = related to the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
- This is Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School.†
p. 143.4
- Have you ever seen the atom bomb mushroom from two hundred miles up?†
p. 150.3atom bomb = exceedingly powerful bomb whose energy comes from the splitting of atoms
Definition:
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