5 sentences with 'atom'
Example sentences and phrases with the word atom and other words derived from it.
• « The bivalent or ferrous iron atom contained in haemoglobin is what gives haemoglobin (and all blood) its characteristic red colour. »
• « Not all water molecules are exactly the same. Although it is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, for every eight thousand or so "normal" molecules there is a different one. The hydrogen that makes it up is not the ordinary kind, but an isotope of it called deuterium. »
• « While the hydrogen atom consists of a proton and an electron, deuterium also has a neutron in its nucleus. While keeping its electric charge intact, it is, however, a heavier particle. »
• « Ernest Rutherford was a nuclear physicist who became known as the 'father' of nuclear physics. He pioneered the Bohr model of the atom through his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the atomic nucleus with his Geiger-Marsden experiment (gold foil experiment). »