component atom

collocation in English

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component
noun[C]
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/kəmˈpəʊ.nənt/us
/kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/
a part that combines with other parts to form ...
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atom
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæt.əm/us
/ˈæt̬.əm/
the smallest unit of any chemical element, consisting of a positive nucleus surrounded by negative electrons. Atoms can combine to form ...
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(Definition ofcomponentandatomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is a list of molecules that have been detected in the interstellar medium and circumstellar envelopes, grouped by the number of component atoms.
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It is assumed that component atoms are point masses connected by rigid bonds.
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Zinc blende structures have higher packing factors than 0.34 depending on the relative sizes of their two component atoms.
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Techniques like this are crucial when it comes to the internal dynamics of molecules: the internal vibrations of systems consisting of mutually bound component atoms.
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Formulas for network solids as those for ionic compounds are simple ratios of the component atoms represented by a formula unit.
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An additional source of atmospheric free oxygen comes from photolysis, whereby high energy ultraviolet radiation breaks down atmospheric water and nitrous oxide into component atoms.
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Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms.
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Many of their properties are due to the fact that a large fraction of their component atoms is found at their surface.
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This is similar to how an everyday object has a center of mass which is the weighted average of the positions of all its component atoms.
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The orbitals are thus expressed as linear combinations of basis functions, and the basis functions are one-electron functions centered on nuclei of the component atoms of the molecule.
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