silver atom

collocation in English

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silver
adjective
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/ˈsɪl.vər/us
/ˈsɪl.vɚ/
made of silver, or of the colour ...
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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 ofsilverandatomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The film now has a concentration gradient ofsilveratomspecks based upon varying intensity light across its area, producing an invisible latent image.
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Films are "developed" using solutions that reduce silver halides in the presence of free silver atoms.
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But in the valence shell of silver atoms, there is a single electron whose spin remains unbalanced.
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Like copper, silver atoms diffuse into the gold layer, causing slow gradual fading of its colour and eventually causing tarnishing of the surface.
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The shortest distance between silver atoms is 299.6 pm (compared to 289 pm in the metal).
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On the other hand, a developed silver grain can have billions of silver atoms.
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The conclusion is that silver atoms have net intrinsic angular momentum of.
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They are trapped and neutralised and must remain as isolated silver atoms for much longer than in normal latent image formation.
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When a beam of silver atoms was passed through a specially shaped magnetic field, the beam was split based on the direction of an atom's angular momentum, or spin.
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It is mostly applied informally to compositions between about 20-80% gold and 20-80% silver atoms, but is strictly called gold or silver depending on the dominant element.
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X-ray diffraction studies show that the silver atoms adopt two different coordination environments, one having two collinear oxide neighbours and the other four coplanar oxide neighbours.
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Minute silver cubes were treated with cationic gold which at room temperatures led to a loss of electrons from the silver atoms which were taken up by an electrolytic solution.
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Silver atoms were evaporated using an electric furnace in a vacuum.
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The laws of classical physics predict that the collection of condensed silver atoms on the plate should form a thin solid line in the same shape as the original beam.
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