How to Use atom in a Sentence

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  • There is not an atom of truth to what he said.
  • 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
  • That pressure moves atoms around in the crystal structure to produce an electric charge.
    — Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2023
  • The fusion of two hydrogen atoms to make helium is the main process that powers the sun and other stars.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • By splitting atoms, there’ll be less fuel needed on flights and more room for cargo.
    — Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • All is made of atoms, a claim that leads to a brief overview of the history of materialism.
    — Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • With the atom bomb, as it was first called, J. Robert Oppenheimer brought a new kind of fire to humankind, and he too was tormented by the powers that be.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Their rocky depths could be used to bottle up blasts from small atom bombs or large subcritical tests.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • What really makes his eyes go bright is when the atom gets split by two German scientists, in 1938.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • The process aims to use lasers or magnets to smash two light atoms into a denser one, releasing large amounts of energy.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Their technique takes advantage of the bonds that form between atoms in a nanoscale channel of the new transistor.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In that span, heat and pressure arrange the carbon’s atoms in a crystal structure that lends the resulting rocks their strength and sparkle.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The atom inside the cage is extremely stable, so can be used for timekeeping.
    — Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • On Tuesday, three scientists won the physics prize for their work on how electrons zip around the atom in the tiniest fractions of seconds.
    — Karl Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023

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