atomic structure
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estructura atómica
- Understanding the atomic structure of materials helps engineers design better products.
- atomic structure of its surface
Think about the plum pudding model of atomic structure versus the central nucleus model.
- Think about the plum pudding model of atomic structure versus the central nucleus model.
- And the reason that glass doesn't melt is it's atomic structure.
- So what is next now in revealing the atomic structure is we want to go beyond the Coulomb field created by a point charge.
- And really because the of the atomic structure of the violin string, it really doesn't have that many oscillators.
Examples
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The atomic structure determines how substances interact with each other at the molecular level.
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Wei-Fu Chen, lead author of the paper and research associate in the Chemistry Department, examines the atomic structure of the platinum-alternative electrocatalyst.
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The lighting feature was also intended to further illustrate this atomic structure of matter.
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Most compositions react to different chemicals due to the nature of their atomic structure and other similar factors.
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The STM makes it possible to observe the atomic structure of the crystallite faces directly.
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The scientists confirmed quasicrystals by obtaining the first images and accurate measurements of the atomic structure of the novel synthetic metal compounds.
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X-ray crystallography proved essential in relating the atomic structure of solids to their functions and physical properties.
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In practice, the inversion from measured diffraction intensities to atomic structure is not as straightforward as one might think.
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Graphene is a nanomaterial combining a very simple atomic structure with intriguingly complex and largely unexplored physics.
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Scientists study the atomic structure of elements to understand their chemical properties.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the arrangement and organization of atoms' is directly derivable from combining 'atomic' (pertaining to atoms) with 'structure' (how parts are organized), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE meaning. This adjective+noun scientific compound follows regular compositional patterns found across languages, making it immediately transparent to learners.
Etymology
Atomic structure comes from the idea of tiny parts called atoms and the word structure, which means how things are put together. Imagine tiny building blocks placed in a pattern; that picture explains why atomic structure means 'how atoms are arranged' in a substance.