Sentences with phrase «unit as the atom»

Astronomers classify all of this stuff as baryonic matter, and they (and we) know its most fundamental unit as the atom, which itself is composed of even smaller subatomic particles, such as protons, neutrons and electrons.

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When he thinks or wills, it is not any one or any number of his cells that thinks his thoughts or wills his purposes, but himself as an irreducible unit, as much as a unit as any cell or any atom or any electron.

Today atoms are understood not as tiny things but as structured units with a nucleus and protons, electrons, etc..

Where relatively simple molecular units are concerned their order of complexity may be roughly expressed by the number of atoms they contain, their «corpuscular number» as one might call it.

As one moves up levels of organization — electrons, atoms, molecules, cells, and so on — the properties of each larger whole are given, not merely by the units of which it is composed, but by the new relations among these units.

Lewontin, Rose and Kamin discuss the different levels at which atoms assemble to make molecules, molecules assemble to make cells and so on: «as one moves up a level the properties of each larger whole are given not merely by the units of which it is composed but of the organizing relations between them... these organizing relationships mean that the properties of matter relevant at one level are just inapplicable at other levels» (NG 278).

In some conceptions of these devices, quantum states that act as units of information would have to be transferred from one group of atoms to another in the form of light.

In the future, Goulielmakis hopes to produce light pulses of 24 attoseconds, the atomic unit of time, defined as how long it takes an electron to travel from one side of a hydrogen atom to the other.

Commonly used polymers, such as polyethylene, nylon and PVC, have a backbone of repeating units (monomers) to which other atoms or groups are attached.

chemical bonds Attractive forces between atoms that are strong enough to make the linked elements function as a single unit.

The Term Chelate: The term chelate was first applied in 1920 by Sir Gilbert T. Morgan and H. D. K. Drew, who stated: «The adjective chelate, derived from the great claw or chele (Greek) of the lobster or other crustaceans, is suggested for the caliperlike groups which function as two associating units and fasten to the central atom so as to produce heterocyclic rings.»

The good news is that Doss can go to war as a non-combatant medical orderly; the bad news is that his unit are being dispatched to Okinawa, the Japanese island where the fighting was so fierce it would eventually persuade the Americans that the only way to defeat the Japanese was to drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As far as hardware goes, we've got an Intel Atom Z2560 dual core 1.6 GHz processor inside, a Clover Trail + unit with hyper threading technologAs far as hardware goes, we've got an Intel Atom Z2560 dual core 1.6 GHz processor inside, a Clover Trail + unit with hyper threading technologas hardware goes, we've got an Intel Atom Z2560 dual core 1.6 GHz processor inside, a Clover Trail + unit with hyper threading technology.

This is the configuration of this particular review unit, but there is a cheaper version available which comes with an Intel Atom Z3560 processor and 2 GB of RAM as well.