All 10 Uses of
atom
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Childhood's End
- It saddened him to think that they would be blasted to atoms when the Columbus rose in flame and fury to the stars.†
Chpt 1
- They've got some kind of atomic drive-it may even be more efficient than ours, and they're building a ship on the shores of Lake Baikal.†
Chpt 1
- Perhaps those responsible hoped to kill two birds with one atomic missile, for their target was floating above the capital of an adjoining and unfriendly nation.†
Chpt 2
- The highly inefficient answer to such a threat would be some billions of horsepower in the shape of atomic bombs.†
Chpt 6
- Without bothering to turn his head, George could see a famous film producer, a minor poet, a mathematician, two actors, an atomic power engineer, a game warden, the editor of a weekly news magazine, a statistician from the World Bank, a violin virtuoso, a professor of arthrology and an astrophysicist.†
Chpt 7
- That means that the Overlords must possess some kind of propulsive system that acts equally on every atom of their ships, so that anything aboard won't be crushed instantly.†
Chpt 12
- There is nothing exceptional about you, any more than there is about the first neutron that starts the chain reaction in an atomic bomb.†
Chpt 18
- In the centuries before our coming, your scientists uncovered the secrets of the physical world and led you from the energy of steam to the energy of the atom.†
Chpt 20
- The forces they might have unleashed transcended any perils that the atom could have brought.†
Chpt 20
- They had teethed away the last atoms of its substance.
Chpt 24 *atoms = multiple of the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
Definition:
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(atom) 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