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Atomic   /ətˈɑmɪk/   Listen
Atomic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or comprising atoms.  "Atomic hydrogen"
2.
(weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy.  Synonym: nuclear.  "Nuclear weapons" , "Atomic bombs"
3.
Immeasurably small.



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"Atomic" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the most recent researches in electricity made by Sir William Crookes and Professor J. J. Thomson, we are compelled to accept an atomic basis for electricity, and as Dr. Lodge, in his Modern Views of Electricity, states that "Aether is made up of positive and negative electricity," then, unless we postulate atomicity for the aether, we have to suppose that it is possible for a ...
— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

... direction of complexity, whereas the structures of matter appear to have long passed the stage of highest complexity, and the elements are now undergoing the retrograde process of being transformed, by radio-activity, from the more complex into simpler elements of lower atomic denominations—namely, having fewer bricks in ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein

... subject to all the laws of all the atoms of which it is composed. And its molecules, or the smallest mechanically separable compounds of these atoms, are arranged and related according to the laws of physics, so as to permit or produce the play of certain forces which are always the result of atomic or molecular combination. Every motive or thought demands the combustion of a certain amount of material which has been already assimilated in the microscopic cellular laboratories of our body. Every vital activity is manifested at least through chemical ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler

... under the action of electric waves and that this contact exhibits an automatic recovery. He found further that the change of the metallic contact resistance when acted upon by electric waves, is a function of the atomic weight. These phenomena led to a new theory of metallic coherers. Before these discoveries it was assumed that the particles of the two metallic pieces in contact are, as it were, fused together, so that the resistance decreases. But the increasing resistance ...
— Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose - His Life and Speeches • Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose



Words linked to "Atomic" :   thermonuclear, conventional, atom, small, little



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