An atom is the basic unit of an element. When you see the chemical formula for water, H2O, it's telling you that each molecule of water is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen.
An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.
Noun
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
Noun
(physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
n.
An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.
n.
An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a
molecule.
n.
A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to
be made up of subordinate particles.
n.
The smallest particle of matter that can enter into
combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.
n.
Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.
v. t.
To reduce to atoms.
Atom
There was not an atom of water.
Atom
An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.
To reduce to atoms.
Usage Examples
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Leave the atom alone.
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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