Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] atoms [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a paper written in 1905 , a few weeks before the famous paper on special relativity , Einstein pointed out that what was called Brownian motion — the irregular , random motion of small particles of dust suspended in a liquid — could be explained as the effect of atoms of the liquid colliding with the dust particles . |
| 2 | At the same laboratory , Dr Clayton Williams and colleagues have developed a type of AFM for measuring the distribution of atoms of a ‘ dopant ’ in semiconductors . |
| 3 | For covalent compounds , a prefix is often added to the first and-or second name to indicate the ratio of atoms in the compound . |
| 4 | After they have turned round under gravity and interacted a second time with the microwaves , the fraction of atoms in the F=4 level is detected and recorded . |
| 5 | This law states that the number of atoms of a radioactive element is halved after a given amount of time has elapsed . |
| 6 | The half-life is defined as the period during which half the number of atoms of an isotope will have undergone at least one disintegration . |
| 7 | We may be able to determine the number of atoms in a group , and so to distinguish MX 2 from MX 3 groups . |
| 8 | They illuminated the structure of chemical compounds , which had hitherto been seen simply in quantitative terms ( i.e. the number of atoms in a molecule ) . |
| 9 | The accuracy comes from literally counting the number of atoms in a single crystal of silicone and weighing it . |
| 10 | Figure 5.2 shows for the Earth , Venus and Mars the abundances of the inert gas isotopes as the number of atoms in the atmosphere per kilogramme of the whole planet . |
| 11 | However , if droplets of helium form then the random collisions of atoms and molecules on the droplet largely cancel out whilst the tendency for gravitational separation rises in proportion to the number of atoms in the droplet . |
| 12 | The odds against assembling a well-designed body that flies as well as a swift , or swims as well as a dolphin , or sees as well as a falcon , in a single blow of luck — single-step selection — are stupendously greater than the number of atoms in the universe , let alone the number of planets ! |
| 13 | We then calculate the character Xy ( R ) for each symmetry operation as n uXxyz ( R ) , where n u is the number of atoms in the molecule left unmoved by the operation . |
| 14 | If is defined as the number of atoms in the backbone chain of a polymer then typical values for c are 610 for polyisobutylene , 730 for polystyrene , and 208 for poly ( methyl methacrylate ) . |
| 15 | The odds against a " yes " answer for questions like Question 1 are many billions of times greater than the number of atoms in the universe . |