Sentences with phrase «balls for atoms»
The team built a three - dimensional model with wire for bonds and wax balls for atoms — which often melted during hot summers, Glusker recalls.
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In a simple case, such as the metaphor of billiard balls for atoms, one needs to decide which of the properties of billiard balls are intended to be shared with atoms.
Not exact matches
«A «pin ball machine» for atoms and photons.»
Fullerenes, which contain at least 60 carbon atoms and have a structure resembling a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, are named for Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.
To illustrate chain reactions in nuclear fission, a table filled with mousetraps represents the atoms and pingpong balls stand in for the new neutrons created from the split.
Nitrogen, for instance, would be represented by 2 identical balls, each standing in for an atom of — you guessed it — nitrogen.
That only goes for th electrons in the individual atoms of the ball, and is really of no interest to the snooker player.
It's repeating hexagons of these ball - like carbon atoms that extend on in atomic scales for great distances.