Sentence examples for atom from inspiring English sources

For Parker's work, Novoselov took microscopic samples of graphite from drawings in the Whitworth's collection, as well as a pencil-written letter by Sir Ernest Rutherford, who split the atom in Manchester.

It's like thinking you know what reality is and then discovering an entire universe within an atom".

But it sounded like an atom bomb going off! KM: You took a small part in his recent film The Libertine, didn't you?

Furthermore, the IAEA announced on Monday that the Iranians had already resolved its queries regarding their experiments with plutonium, a material which, like uranium, can be used to build an atom bomb.

In the course of such acceleration the propelled fragment of an atom will have acquired the relativistic mass of a mosquito: the whole beam at full tilt has the momentum of an express train at full speed.

Indeed, while it is an open secret that Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona started producing atom bombs in 1968, and that it has built up an arsenal of some 200 nuclear bombs, it has not officially acknowledged the existence of such activity.

Every atom is on display.

A volume of space that started off no larger than an atom in the pre-inflation universe would, after inflation, have been about the size of the solar system.Apart from the sheer gobsmackingness of this claim, the BICEP2 team's discovery is important for three reasons.

PHYSICISTS Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselev have been rightly feted for their isolation, in 2003, of graphene sheets of pure carbon a single atom thick whose existence had been pondered for decades, but which theory suggested was too unstable to survive.

Let not the working man think himself merely an atom in the political machine; his vote might turn the election for Liverpool, and the one vote for Liverpool might destroy for ever this odious corn law.

And in support of this he quotes Peter Brook, a British theatre director: "Each line in Shakespeare is an atom.