Sentence examples for knock apart from inspiring English sources

It's also more durable, Long says, because the molybdenum atom in each compound is bonded to five other atoms, making it harder to knock apart and thus more stable than competing hydrogen-generating compounds using iron and nickel that form fewer links to their neighbors.

Addis Ababa, already seriously concerned about the succession to the throne and running an empire that could be knocked apart by one good blow, is in no mood to wait and see what its neighbours are really up to.

"There was nothing to see but a Coast Guard station at the south end and a fishing shack that had been knocked apart by storms," recalled Mr. Kerlin in a 1996 deposition about the first time he saw Padre Island.

They should be sturdily constructed, as weak connections may be knocked apart.

Had his machines detected some creeping ailment that would knock us apart in two or three or four years, right on schedule?

Anything that tries to knock that apart becomes a threat".

The difficulty was how to turn proteins into a charged vapor without knocking them apart.

Mr. Brion's specialty onstage is building songs -- his own, other people's, sometimes tunes he's inventing on the spot -- instrument by instrument live, and knocking them apart too.

The sensors actually detect the neutrons created in the upper atmosphere when high-speed particles slam into the nuclei of atoms of gases, knocking them apart and sending the neutrons groundward.

We also wanted to get a female perspective so we had some gospel singers come in and sing on it it, and they knocked it apart and it was a really fun part of making the record.

Two groups have harnessed lasers to split uranium apart, knock neutrons out of gold, and perform other nuclear feats, they report in the February Physical Review Letters.