Which preposition to use with atoms
Undoubtedly, atoms of the old, decayed furniture helped to swell its bulk; and, somewhere among it all, mouldered the long-ago-dead Pepper.
A heap of atoms in some strange human semblanceis that all?
And he logically proceeds to conceive material atoms as thinking.
I am going to raise the rate of vibration, or frequency, of the individual atoms to the higher rate of the anim state.
And as motion is also assumed to be a constant quantity, it is plain that what struggles to be and to multiply, must be some special collocation and grouping of atoms with some correspondingly particular determination of motion, called "life;" but what "life" is, apart from the means it is supposed to have selected for itself, does not appear.
There would not be one kind of atom for iron and another for oxygen.
When rising zephyr from thy ruin brings A world of atoms on its fairy wings.
If, on the contrary, the motion in a direct line is not essential to all bodies, why do they so confidently suppose eternal, necessary, and immutable laws for the motion of atoms without recurring to a first mover?
He takes a grim delight in smashing the English language into microscopic atoms at a single blow.
They had heard of the merciless American gunner and they knew, in their souls, that he could shoot the island into atoms before nightfall.
It is to no purpose my mind is willing to move the bodies that surround it, and which it knows very distinctly; for none of them stirs, and it has not power to move the least atom by its will.
Everywhere, Thou art shining through the air; Every atom from another Takes thee, gives thee to his brother; Continually, Thou art falling on the sea, Bathing the deep woods down below, Making the sea-flowers bud and blow; Silently, Thou art working ardently, Bringing from the night of nought Into being and to thought; Influences Every beam of thine dispenses, Powerful, varied, reaching far, Differing in every star.
He called the separate atoms or groups of atoms into which bodies undergoing electrolysis are separated, the radicals, or ions, and named the electro-positive ions, which appear at the cathode, the kathions, and the electro-negative radicals which appear at the anode, the anions.
The whole material universe is all illusion; a mere temporary relation of its atoms through motion, without Reality or permanence.
The clinamen, as we have already shown, is manifestly impossible: but, contrary to evident truth, supposing it to be possible, in such a case it must be affirmed that the clinamen is no less necessary, immutable, and essential to atoms than the straight line.
The world could shatter to atoms after that for all he would care.
But at other times a calm came to Louie that was more pathetic than her wildest grief: it was the acquiescence in what Providence had chosen for Andrew, cost herself what it mightit was the submission of the atom beneath the wheels of the great engine.
If you were to cut him up in little bits and put each atom under a microscope, you would find in every molecule the text of some proclamation.
Every moment increased his jeopardy; the storm augmented; and, at each growing blast, he expected to be torn from his cables, and dashed to atoms against the rocks.
This force is constantly nourishing every atom that is out there in space, every atom within the earth.
Mrs Keswick had no personal objections to Roberta, never having seen that lady, and knowing little of her; but an alliance between her Junius and any member of that branch of the Brandons, "which," to use the old lady's own words, "had for four generations cheated, stripped, and scornfully used my people, scattering their atoms over the face of three counties," was monstrous.