atom
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It occurs when a single magnetic atom, such as iron or manganese, is placed as an impurity inside a metal such as copper.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
The U.S. government initiated and oversaw the entire enterprise that unleashed the atom and made the bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Researchers are probing scales as small as 10-20 meters at the LHC, a distance that is to an atom, what an atom is to a human.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Before testing the first atom bomb, the Los Alamos crew asked Hans Bethe to confirm with math that it wouldn’t start a chain reaction and consume the atmosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The grip of the strong force reaches out only to about 1/100,000 of the diameter of an atom.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Even though red blood cells are vastly larger than atoms, the forces acting where their surfaces approach one another involve distances small enough for molecular and quantum effects to matter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Traditional atomic clocks solve this problem by using the energy transitions of electrons in atoms as a stable reference.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Atomic nuclei are more than 10,000 times smaller than atoms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
"X-ray scattering mostly sees atoms that are rich with electrons, and so the proton is not seen directly," she said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
A fission bomb could create the heat and pressure needed to fuse hydrogen atoms.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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