This can be the tick - tock of an escapement, an oscillating quartz crystal or the ejection of a particle
from a radioactive atom — one way or another, there must be movement.
Not exact matches
Cell phones use non-ionizing radiation, which differs
from the ionizing radiation of x-rays and
radioactive material in that it does not have enough energy to knock around — or ionize — electrons or particles in
atoms.
The
radioactive carbon 14 is isolated
from the other
atoms in a sample, making it possible to derive more accurate chronologies
from much smaller archaeological or anthropological specimens
The destructive power of the alpha particle — a helium - like structure ejected
from the nucleus of a
radioactive atom — offers a curiously poetic foil for Basquiat's aesthetic.