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Noun
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(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
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(physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
Usage examples
- I'm not so much into anatomy, where's the bladder again?
- When excited atomic states decay, energy is released by fluorescence.
- The ejected photoelectron interacts with electrons in the surrounding non-excited atoms.
- The airdrop of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima had devastating implications.
- There is no internal anatomy, only external.
- Colombo anatomized the live, active body whereas his contemporaries had anatomized the dead body.
- Gunn's final full-length work was a discursive autobiography entitled "The Atom of Delight".
- Haruko uses Naota for her search for the Pirate King, Atomsk.
- I'm not so much into anatomy, where's the bladder again?
- The airdrop of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima had devastating implications.