Word: atomization
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...atom, which is neutral in electric charge, becomes ionized when one or more of its tiny electrons is knocked away by an outside force. The particles resulting from ionization, including both the freed electrons and the remainder of the atom, have electric charges, and can exert electric force...
Locked up for millions of years in the heart of the lead atom lies a geological secret which promises to aid scientists in extending the knowledge of earth's history back farther than ever before into the ages following this planet's birth from the sun, a Harvard physicist has found...
...tracing back this ancient peculiarity, scientists may find that the ordinary lead atom carries within it at least a partial record of physical and chemical development when the earth was young. For one thing, a continuation of this study promises to reveal important clues as to the mechanism of the formation of lead ores...
...discovery was made by Dr. Alfred O. Nier, National Research Fellow in the Harvard Physics laboratories, and resulted from his development of the most delicate atom "sifter" known to science...
...Prime example of the dogmatic spirit is "the relativistic theories of Einstein, which are based on an arbitrary definition of space and time coordinates. . . ." Other examples are theories of wave mechanics in which the electron is "arbitrarily smeared in a large spatial region around the atom" or made to "dance round the atom in an irregular manner...