sodium atom

collocation in English

meaningsofsodiumandatom

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sodium
noun[U]
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/ˈsəʊ.di.əm/us
/ˈsoʊ.di.əm/
a soft, silver-white chemical element that is found ...
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atom
noun[C]
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/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 ofsodiumandatomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Consider the level 2 "p" of asodiumatom, in which there are six indiscernible electrons.
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In this compound eachsodiumatomhas a distorted octahedral molecular geometry with coordination to molybdenum atoms and water molecules.
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The essay then narrows in on the original picture, with graphics that show ever smaller areas until the nucleus of asodiumatomis reached.
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Asodiumatomhas a single electron in its outermost electron shell, the first and second shells again being full with two and eight electrons respectively.
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Ultracold sodium atoms were trapped in an accelerating optical lattice and the loss due to tunneling was measured.
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X-ray crystallography showed that the sodium atoms are arranged in layers of hexagonal clusters akin to pentacenes.
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Four sodium atoms are required to fully reduce each ester to alcohols.
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The flame was blue, but it became an orange colour, because all of the sodium atoms in there are getting really, really excited.
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It also has a unique motif of silicon tetrahedra chains and copper octahedra aligned along the c axis and linked together by sodium atoms.
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Sodium guide stars use laser light at 589 nm to excite sodium atoms in the mesosphere and thermosphere, which then appear to glow.
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Another single photon source came in 1977 which utilised the fluorescence from an attenuated beam of sodium atoms.
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The sodium atoms then re-emit the laser light, producing a glowing artificial star.
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In contrast, sodium atoms are much heavier than both the oxygen and hydrogen atoms found in water, and therefore the neutrons lose less energy in collisions with sodium atoms.
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A beam of sodium atoms was attenuated so that no more than one or two atoms contributed to the observed fluorescence radiation at any one time.
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