All 6 Uses of
nucleus
in
Burned, by Ellen Hopkins
- I sat, fascinated, as Aunt J remembered: In the 1950s the U.S. government detonated nuclear weapons aboveground, down at the test site near Vegas.†
nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- Now the rest of the country wants Nevada to take its nuclear waste?†
- We don't even use nuclear power.†
- That's where they'll run their nuclear waste shipments.†
- This book is fiction, but much in it is true—in particular, the stories about nuclear issues in Nevada.†
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- Those "downwinders" still alive—and their children—suffer health problems directly related to the aboveground nuclear testing that took place at the Nevada Test Site in the middle part of the twentieth century.†
Definition:
the center (or most important part) of something
such as:
- in physics: the center of an atom where protons & neutrons are found
- in biology: the center of a cell where DNA is found
- in sociology: the closest family (mother/father/children in contrast to the extended family)