atom
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These compounds feature a metal atom positioned between two carbon rings, giving them a distinctive "sandwich" structure.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
In its first moments, the universe was a seething soup of elementary particles and energetic photons that would destroy any atom before it could form.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
That gap measures only about 0.14 nanometers, making it thinner than a single sulfur atom.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
Infleqtion, the maker of quantum sensors and neutral atom computers, gained nearly 24%.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
An atom with one proton is an atom of hydrogen, one with two protons is helium, with three protons is lithium, and so on up the scale.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing atom
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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Word Generation Science - Introductory Chemistry Concepts
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Matter and Energy 1: Atoms and Molecules
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