adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a nuclear/atomic explosion
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This is the site of the first ever nuclear explosion.
an atom/atomic bomb
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Oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb.
atomic bomb
atomic energy
atomic number
nuclear/atomic energy
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a report on the cost of nuclear energy
nuclear/atomic weapons
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The country is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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absorption
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Analytical techniques such as atomic absorption spectrophotometry and neutron activation analysis may be required for quantitative determination at such low levels.
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Calcium is determined using a variety of other reagents and most reliably by using atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
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Analysis was by atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
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There is no mention of environmentally important techniques as gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, atomic absorption spectrometry, etc.
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The Z-8200 series of atomic absorption spectrophotometers has been launched by Hitachi Scientific Instruments.
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To determine these it is necessary to use a slower method such as atomic absorption spectroscopy or neutron activation.
bomb
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He had led the team that developed the Soviet Union's atomic bomb and had begun seeking peaceful applications of nuclear power.
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On September 23, 1949, Truman declared that the Soviets had detonated an atomic bomb .
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This was a crude nuclear reactor whose job was simply to produce plutonium for the manufacture of atomic bombs .
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The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima at 8: 15 in the morning of August 6, 1945.
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Eventually, he demanded a couple of dozen atomic bombs to do the job.
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These were the days of ducking and cowering under our desks to survive a direct hit from an atomic bomb .
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It soon developed the atomic bomb .
clock
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Other more recent tests involve direct comparison of the time-keeping of atomic clocks or of masers.
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Similarly, events can be timed to the precision of atomic clock broadcasts.
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These transmit coded signals containing information from highly accurate atomic clocks on board.
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It also has the advantage of reducing many systematic effects present in atomic clocks .
energy
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Substantial amounts have been earmarked for energy - mainly to a new agency for energy management and the atomic energy agency.
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Still, I catch glimpses of the same atomic energy she has always had, the same joie de vivre.
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We had great difficulty getting information on the atomic energy privatisation measure.
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These two effects split the atomic energy levels into several components, producing the so-called hyperfine structure.
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Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry, atomic energy and strategic minerals.
nucleus
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At this point it must seem paradoxical that atomic nuclei containing several closely packed protons exist at all.
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Within the nucleus An atomic nucleus is very small; less than 10 -15 metres in diameter.
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Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus .
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Understanding of the atomic nucleus was progressing rapidly and awareness was dawning of the awesome energies latent within.
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In this context, a neutron star is effectively a single atomic nucleus .
number
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This selection of elements also reveals the increase in atomic weight over atomic number .
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All atoms of the same element have the same atomic number; for exam-ple, the atomic number of carbon is 6.
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Carbon has three naturally occurring isotopes, that is, atoms of the same atomic number but different atomic weights.
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The presence of neutrons explains why the atomic weights of elements do not correspond with their atomic numbers .
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The ionic radius varies among the elements depending on atomic number and ionic charge of the ion.
particle
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Like atomic particles , emotions have half-lives.
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We are continuously bombarded by cosmic rays, atomic particles ejected by distant stellar catastrophes.
physics
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There is a complementarity between life and atomic physics .
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Scientists were deeply split on the uses to which the discoveries of atomic physics were being put.
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In atomic physics they are represented as Proton, Neutron, Electron, the three elements of all structure throughout nature.
power
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She's demanding from me a commitment to something more personal than atomic Power .
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The outer provinces still possessed immense stretches where atomic power had not yet been re-introduced.
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But atomic power to my generation always means that mushroom cloud.
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You have given them atomic power .
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I imagine atomic power is fifty thousand years old now.
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And therefore it follows that the rest of the Periphery no longer has atomic power either.
structure
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They expected diamonds to have a single atomic structure .
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The discovery of atomic structure and the uncertainty principle put an emphatic end to that.
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The reasons lie in its complex physical chemistry, and central to this is its atomic structure .
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The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block.
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The text assumes a basic knowledge of symmetry, atomic structure , thermodynamics and electrode potentials.
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This hope was shattered by the discovery of atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
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So volcanic rocks are composed of only a few mineral groups, each group having its own characteristic atomic structure .
theory
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Genetics is to biology what atomic theory is to physics.
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He claimed the atomic theory of crystal shape was unproven.
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The book is indispensable to anyone working in atomic theory and should be of interest also to those working in applied spectroscopy.
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The evidence for the so-called atomic theory has been very much circumstantial.
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It is hardly suited as a textbook for a graduate course in atomic theory .
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There were all sorts of other problems with Dalton's atomic theory .
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There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
weapon
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When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945, he was no enthusiast of atomic weapons , but that programme proceeded.
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B-29s were known around the world as the bombers that carried atomic weapons .
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There is some residual radiation, indicating that atomic weapons were in use approximately five thousand years ago.
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In 1974 congressional committees began raising questions in public about the security and usefulness of the atomic weapons .
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They argued that the use of atomic weapons violated both conventional and customary international law.
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Under Eisenhower, the United States developed smaller atomic weapons that could be used tactically on the battlefield.
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Furthermore, he saw incompatibility in Britain spending large sums on atomic weapons whilst accepting Marshall Aid.
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His family believe it was because his father, Phillip worked at the atomic weapons plant at Aldermaston.
weight
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Coronium, for example, received an atomic weight of 0.4.
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The sum of the masses of protons and neutrons is the atomic weight of the atom.
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This selection of elements also reveals the increase in atomic weight over atomic number.
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The iron minerals hematite and magnetite have high densities be-cause of the high atomic weight of iron.
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The atomic weight is a ratio quite distinct from the weight in grams.
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Carbon has three naturally occurring isotopes, that is, atoms of the same atomic number but different atomic weights .
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The presence of neutrons explains why the atomic weights of elements do not correspond with their atomic numbers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A star marks the epicentre of the atomic bomb dropped in 1945.
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All this occurred after the two atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Energy is released when the nuclei of the light atomic elements join, so bringing them together is the primary goal.
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The United States might have created the atomic bomb in hundreds of different ways.
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These were the days of ducking and cowering under our desks to survive a direct hit from an atomic bomb.
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This hope was shattered by the discovery of atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
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When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945, he was no enthusiast of atomic weapons, but that programme proceeded.