[
UK
/ɐtˈɒmɪk/
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[ US /əˈtɑmɪk/ ]
[ US /əˈtɑmɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy
atomic bombs
nuclear weapons
nuclear war - immeasurably small
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of or relating to or comprising atoms
atomic hydrogen
atomic structure
How To Use atomic In A Sentence
- Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
- Faith in controlled nuclear fission is now being shown by the construction of atomic power stations.
- Nuclear fusion is sort of the Holy Grail of energy production, whereby atomic nuclei slam together at high temperatures, fuse and release a great deal of energy.
- That Constellation would not sign a power purchase agreement for its own reactor is a stunning admission that atomic energy cannot compete with natural gas or renewables. Harvey Wasserman: Nuke "Renaissance" Leaps off Calvert Cliffs
- The waste from a defunct reactor is full of plutonium, a highly toxic metal used as the explosive in atomic bombs.
- What is the key difference between your various structures, in how various tetratomic molecules have different shape?
- By holding the mobile to your ear, the death-dealing atomic waves penetrated your skull and a cancer was formed.
- The strong force is the one that is dominant in the atomic nucleus, acting between the quarks inside the proton and the neutron.
- Mercury is thermally desorbed from solid samples, trapped on an in-line gold trap, and subsequently determined by cold-vapour atomic absorption spectrometry.
- What is the difference between a hydrogen bomb and an atomic bomb? Times, Sunday Times