Sentence examples for a chunk of material from inspiring English sources

Scientists have long believed that the moon was formed through a massive collision some 4.5 billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object struck Earth, knocking off a chunk of material that coalesced to form our lunar neighbor.

Likewise for mass, we will take a chunk of some material and we will call it a kilogram.

"Even pairs of people as far apart as the U.K. and Turkey share a chunk of genomic material 20 percent of the time," according to the authors of a paper published on Tuesday.

The smell crew takes whiffs of air from fruit-canning jars that contain a chunk of car material and a little water, and which are held at 108 degrees Fahrenheit for 16 hours.

The carbon buckyball was predicted long before it was manufactured in the lab; the clever solution to coaxing it into forming a fullerene was to use a laser to zap a chunk of the material.

Sputtering means that atoms are blasted off a chunk of raw material, suspended in a plasma and deposited on a substrate.

The basic concept of implosion is to use chemical explosives to crush a chunk of fissile material into a critical mass, where neutron multiplication leads to a nuclear chain reaction, releasing a large amount of energy.

A quantum dot qubit is a small chunk of material in which, as in an atom, the quantum states of an electron can represent 0 and 1.

It's far more difficult to get that kind of patterning into a thick chunk of material to make a three-dimensional structure without degrading the material.

Many of these letters have previously appeared in truncated form in the biographies, and it is a collection approved by the Fleming estate; there must have been a damnable chunk of material that didn't make the cut.

The many tiny antennas in a heated chunk of material are, as noted above, to be identified with the accelerating and decelerating charges in the heat motion of the atoms of the material.