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nucleus
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The Three-Body Problem
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- 6," the successful tests for China's first fission and fusion nuclear bombs, respectively.†
p. 37.9nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- Translator's Note: The Second Artillery Corps controls China's nuclear missiles.†
p. 47.9
- Environmental activists have also become extra bold: protest mobs at construction sites to stop nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams, experimental communities 'returning to nature,' and other apparently trivial matters ....Do you go to the movies?†
p. 135.1
- Nuclear missiles capable of destroying the Earth ten times over could be launched at a moment's notice, spread out among the countless missile silos dotting two continents and hidden within ghostlike nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines patrolling deep under the sea.†
p. 270.4
- Nuclear missiles capable of destroying the Earth ten times over could be launched at a moment's notice, spread out among the countless missile silos dotting two continents and hidden within ghostlike nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines patrolling deep under the sea.†
p. 270.5
- As an astrophysicist, Ye was strongly against nuclear weapons.†
p. 270.7
- Smiling, she said, "Officers, we hold in our hands three nuclear bombs, each with a yield of about one point five kilotons.†
p. 279.4
- The flashlights attached to the soldiers' guns focused on the young woman holding the nuclear bomb.†
p. 280.4
- It won't lead to the kind of precise compression of the fissile material in the center necessary for a nuclear explosion.†
p. 280.7
- Da Shi stared at the nuclear woman, saying nothing.†
p. 280.7
- The explosion had turned the nuclear woman into a bloody mess, but she was the only casualty of the aborted bomb.†
p. 281.7
- Six years ago, in the distant Trisolaran stellar system, Trisolaris accelerated two hydrogen nuclei to near the speed of light and shot them toward the solar system.†
p. 326.8
- These two hydrogen nuclei, or protons, arrived at the solar system two years ago, then reached the Earth.
p. 326.8 *nuclei = centers of atoms
- After being unfolded into one dimension, the strong nuclear force within the proton became far more attenuated, weakening the string.†
p. 364.3nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- These were the exploding nuclear warheads launched by the Trisolaran space defense corps.†
p. 368.2
- The "p-n junctions" of the circuits were formed by twisting the strong nuclear forces locally on the surface of the proton plane, and the conducting lines were made of mesons that could transmit the nuclear force.†
p. 373.8
- The "p-n junctions" of the circuits were formed by twisting the strong nuclear forces locally on the surface of the proton plane, and the conducting lines were made of mesons that could transmit the nuclear force.†
p. 373.9
- For example, suppose a nucleus has two protons.†
p. 377.2nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
- When these two protons are taken out of the nucleus, no matter how far apart they are, this pattern will remain in effect.†
p. 377.3
- Suppose an atom is the size of a theater; the nucleus is like a walnut hovering in the center of the theater.†
p. 378.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(nucleus) the center (or most important part) of somethingsuch 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)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)