atom

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Later, one krypton atom moves closer to the neon atom while the other shifts farther away, creating favorable conditions for electron transfer and energy flow.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

"Our new catalyst has a single atom architecture, in which isolated active metal atoms are anchored on the surface of a specially developed support material," Pérez-Ramírez explains.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

So he was not dealing with ordinary, day-to-day stuff, let alone whether you should pursue an atom bomb.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

What comes after silicon microchips—pocket quantum computers, say, or transistors only an atom thick—could be as strange to people living today as microchips were in the 1960s, when Gordon Moore started laying down the law.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Exactly when any given atom will shed its loose particles is anyone’s guess.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland