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[ UK /ɐtˈɒmɪk/ ]
[ US /əˈtɑmɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy
    atomic bombs
    nuclear weapons
    nuclear war
  2. immeasurably small
  3. 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
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