Sentences with phrase «precisely as an atom»

It is precisely as an atom of ambiguity that Whitehead's actual occasion is an atom of adventure, the search for new perfections (AI 258).

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And she is for the world not as an element like any other (as one atom is like every other atom), but she is for the world precisely in her unique, actual, finalized experience.

Thus, Bergson's proto - mentalism is also interpretable as the positive face of the critique of simple location.4 The fallacy of simple location is the basis for the view, in both physical and logical atomism, that the «individuality of the atom [and of objects in general] is based precisely on its [or their] ontological separation from other simply located entities» (BMP 309).

To test theories such as general relativity, the strength of gravity is measured precisely using ensembles of supercold atoms falling in a vacuum chamber.

Experiments with this DNA origami positioning device showed that it could be capable of precisely placing molecules, adjusting the distance between them in steps as small as the radius of a hydrogen atom.

The heightened accuracy of the technique is precisely due to the use of a solo atom as a «probe» in obtaining these measurements.

The relatively recent emergence of biophysics as a scientific discipline may be attributed, in particular, to the spectacular success of biophysical tools in unravelling the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the fundamental hereditary material, and in establishing the precisely detailed structure of proteins such as hemoglobin in order that the position of each atom may be known.

The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabrication of macroscale products, also now referred to as molecular nanotechnology.

The good Lord has inserted a thermometer in every oxygen & nitrogen atom — so they expand / shrink» precisely» as necessary.