Atoms in a sentence

Although the atoms remain in the trap for only about 20 seconds before escaping (or decaying), a steady stream of fresh atoms replaces those lost, keeping the number of trapped atoms roughly constant for minutes or longer.

Chlorine can bond with up to 3 fluorine atoms, bromine can bond with up to five fluorine atoms, and iodine can bond with up to seven fluorine atoms.

For example, the empirical formula for glucose is CH 2 O (twice as many hydrogen atoms as carbon and oxygen), while its molecular formula is C 6 H 12 O 6 (12 hydrogen atoms, six carbon and oxygen atoms).

For example, the number of atoms of a given element X on the reactant side must equal the number of atoms of that element on the product side, whether or not all of those atoms are actually involved in a reaction.

For instance, in ideally bonded amorphous silica all Si atoms have 4 bonds to O atoms and all O atoms have 2 bonds to Si atom.

In a couple of minutes, almost all atoms of element A will have decayed after repeated halving of the initial number of atoms, but very few of the atoms of element B will have done so as only a tiny fraction of its half-life has elapsed.

It bonds readily with other small atoms including other carbon atoms, and is capable of forming multiple stable covalent bonds with such atoms.

Negative muons can, however, form muonic atoms (also called mu-mesic atoms ), by replacing an electron in ordinary atoms.

O atoms are red balls, N atoms are blue, and H atoms are omitted for simplicity; sidechains are shown only out to the first sidechain C atom (green).

Stainless steel is an example of a combination of interstitial and substitutional alloys, because the carbon atoms fit into the interstices, but some of the iron atoms are replaced with nickel and chromium atoms.

The average number of atoms ejected from the target per incident ion is called the sputter yield and depends on the ion incident angle, the energy of the ion, the masses of the ion and target atoms, and the surface binding energy of atoms in the target.

The lower limit is set by the size of atoms (hydrogen has the smallest atoms, which are approximately a quarter of a nm diameter) since nanotechnology must build its devices from atoms and molecules.

The synthesized substance was a particular metallofullerene consisting of 84 carbon atoms with two additional carbon atoms and two yttrium atoms inside the cage.

First, a finely tuned series of radio pulses put the carbon atoms into a particular minimum-energy ground state featuring entanglement between the two atoms.

They have called the short protein molecule “” due to its backbone nitrogen atoms bonding with two nickel atoms.

After the war, 3M hired some Manhattan Project chemists and began mass-producing chains of carbon atoms bonded to fluorine atoms.

When the laser illuminates the atoms, it excites them just enough for them to emit a faint light at a unique frequency, but delicately enough to preserve and read out the atoms' spins.

At those temperatures, the atoms of the detector are nearly stationary and, if a dark matter particle passes through the Earth and interacts with the atoms of the detector, they will vibrate and the vibrations will be detected.

His contraption smashes together atoms with enough force to fuse them into one and this process releases energy trapped inside the atoms.

Ten-year-old Zachary Friday said, “Since atoms and molecules make up everything, maybe one of the molecules or atoms are a different color than the leaf.