atom
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Extrapolating backward in time, Lemaître proposed the idea of a primeval atom: a singularity from which the universe emerged in a uniquely hot, dense state.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
In its first moments, the universe was a seething soup of elementary particles and energetic photons that would destroy any atom before it could form.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Water molecules are made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, giving water its familiar H2O formula.
From Science Daily • May 8, 2026
The first phase involved determining if he predated the "nuclear age", which began in 1945 when the US first tested the atom bomb in New Mexico, the coroner heard.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
If you could feel every atom in your body simultaneously release its grip on its neighbors, expand outward so that each particle becomes a new center in the universe, it would feel exactly like this.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Vocabulary lists containing atom
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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Word Generation Science - Introductory Chemistry Concepts
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Matter and Energy 1: Atoms and Molecules
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