How to Use atom in a Sentence

atom

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  • Like, is anyone talking about the inventor of the atom bomb in their lives?
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Radioactive atoms trapped in seafloor sediments are the telltale signs of this event.
    — Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The ozone layer is a thin blanket in the stratosphere made of molecules with three oxygen atoms.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • One of the elements whose atom Enrico split was uranium.
    — Rosario A. Iaconis, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Billions of years ago, Earth’s neighbor had plenty of water — and the reason it’s now gone may have to do with whizzing hydrogen atoms.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 8 May 2024
  • Many red, yellow and orange pigments are azo pigments, which contain two connected nitrogen atoms.
    — John Swierk, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Ordered ice forms slowly, even under the right conditions, because hydrogen atoms get stuck and can’t move past one another.
    — Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Like other parts of the house, her bedroom had walls that look like distressed concrete, with a giant picture of an atom bomb explosion hanging nearby.
    — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
  • Those leftover carbon atoms combine with oxygen to create carbon dioxide, which vents into the atmosphere.
    — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • This process energizes the hydrogen atom, which can then exceed the planet’s escape velocity and escape to space.
    — Eryn Cangi, The Conversation, 6 May 2024
  • The experimental investigations mark the next stage in the quest to understand the particle that anchors every atom and makes up the bulk of our world.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Ozone, a highly reactive compound comprised of three oxygen atoms, forms one of the most critical components of Earth’s atmosphere.
    — Max Springer, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • The resulting carbon atoms accumulate on a diamond seed crystal placed inside the chamber and grow, layer by layer, into a diamond.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The atom bomb could fall, or Martians could arrive, all that sort of thing.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
  • This means that an electron is mostly free to move from one atom to the next.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • This means an electron can belong to more than one atom at the same time.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The process converts some of the total mass of the atoms into energy.
    — Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
  • At this lab, the secrets of the atom — and the universe — are being discovered.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In other words, the atom has absorbed some light and has not absorbed any light at the same time.
    — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Nudge one oxygen atom a bit to the left, and the temperature won’t budge.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, out the window, a fiery atom bomb explodes in the distance.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The invention of the atom bomb has shaped both history and ecosystems across the globe.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Imagine a rock smashing into the ground with a force 150 times greater than an atom bomb.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This happened despite the fact that the Bob atom always started out in its ground state.
    — Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Most members of the filmmaking crew tell THR that the atom sequences were the most challenging on the film.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
  • When the atoms jump between states, their properties change.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Bottom-up synthesis builds the carbon sheets one atom at a time over a few hours.
    — Kevin Wyss, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Still, Los Alamos will always be remembered as the birthplace of the atom bomb.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • There’s nothing natural about the atom bomb, or a self replicating nanobot that will eat the Earth.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022
  • There isn’t one star, or one galaxy, or one hydrogen atom in the cosmos.
    — Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023

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