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Definition of Atoms
1. atom [n] - See also: atom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atoms
Literary usage of Atoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"The electrons in atoms tend to surround the nucleus in successive layers ...
The word atom is used in the broader sense •which includes charged atoms (ions) ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Figure I. The molecular structure projected onto the plane defined by the b and
r* axes (the YZ plane of the orthogonal coordinate system). Hydrogen atoms ..."
3. New Essays Concerning Human Understanding by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Immanuel Gerhardt (1916)
"1. produced from non-atoms through contact. And the same principi will hold, ...
Whence it follows that atoms which have once touched each other cannot ..."
4. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1905)
"ON WEIGHING atoms. To those who cull their knowledge ot current science ... atoms!
I hear them say, what is he thinking about ? There are no atoms now, ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"When, for example, four atoms of hydrogen unite with one atom of carbon (represented
graphically in figure 119, with its four bonds of union), ..."
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