The phrase
"small nucleus" refers to a tiny and central part of something. Just like the core of an atom is called a nucleus, a
small nucleus means a small and important center of something.
Full definition
Nuclear fission is a process in nuclear physics in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or
more smaller nuclei as fission products, and usually some by - product particles.
Even with the
relatively small nucleus (compared, say, to Hale - Bopp's 1997's appearance, with its roughly 20 - mile, or 32 - kilometer, nucleus), Ison still had a whopping 80,000 - mile (120,000 - kilometer) coma.
From left to right: PN1 Penetrable (PN1 Penetrável), 1960; P34 White Painting (P34 Série branca), 1959; Untitled, ca. 1960;
NC1 Small Nucleus 1 (NC1 Núcleo pequeno 1), 1960.
New churches, schools and Catholic institutions were constantly being opened, and the Catholic community was a vibrant one,
the small nucleus of «Old Catholics» having been augmented by Anglican converts and Irish emigrants — from which groups came Francis Bourne's own family.
But I am quietly confident we have
a small nucleus of quality that, when added to appropriately over the next several windows, will revive our fortunes.
We talk to Lesley from Tavistock Tastes & Textures about how she has grown the brand and why she would rather have
a small nucleus of fans and repeat customers than a big business...
«We also want to decipher how the fibril grows from
a small nucleus.»
PANSTARRS travelled in towards the inner Solar system for millions of years, dormant for most of this time as
a small nucleus made up of rock and ices.
In 1903 Nagaoka proposed a model of the atom that contained
a small nucleus surrounded by a ring of electrons.
ISON was not visible during its closest approach to the Sun, so many scientists thought it had disintegrated, but images like this one from the ESA / NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory suggest that
a small nucleus may be intact.
To determine whether defects in the mitochondrial dynamics of
this small nucleus of POMC neurons could cause alterations in metabolism, researchers removed a mitochondrial dynamics protein, Mitofusin 1, from these cells in mice.
Defective nucleoli (
small nuclei) have been implicated in a number of rare hereditary conditions, as well as in neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's and Alzheimer's.
Freeesh, Free In the annoyingly named and dream - like Freeesh, you play as a molecule charged with feeding
a small nucleus.