Bohr atom

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noun Physics.

See under Bohr theory.

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Origin of Bohr atom

First recorded in 1920–25; after N. Bohr

Words nearby Bohr atom

Böhmerwald, Böhm flute, boho, Bohol, Bohr, Bohr atom, bohrium, Bohr magneton, Bohr, Niels, Bohr radius, Bohr theory

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How to use Bohr atom in a sentence

Check: “This atom smashing business is going to herald the final victory of the machine.”
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They found that there are roughly 1,900 hydrogen atoms for each deuterium atom in the water on Comet 67P.
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Releasing a new issue was like dropping an atom bomb on the industry.
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You have the atom, which has the neutron, the electron, the proton.
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A face in a sea of faces, how could you know he hid among them like Oppenheimer, building a lab to split the atom.
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Standing in the wet shingle, Maynard regarded the speckled atom as it lay in the palm of his hand.
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Such an atom would by the rotation of the sphere accomplish no motion except, indeed, that it might turn round on its own centre.
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She had a governess and she had a maid, but I must say she didn't seem an atom set up, and was just as nice when she met us girls.
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The loss of one electron by an atom leaves a unit positive charge on the particle.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
The smallest atom, when she chooses to make use of it, is obliged to obey her will.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Cultural definitions for Bohr atom

Bohr atom

[ (bawr) ]

The simplest modern picture of the structure of the atom, according to which electrons move in orbits around the nucleus. The electron's orbits can exist only at certain well-defined distances from the nucleus. When an electron changes orbits, it does so in a sudden quantum leap. The energy difference between the initial and final orbit is emitted by the atom in bundles of electromagnetic radiation called photons.

notes for Bohr atom

The Bohr atom is named after the twentieth-century Danish physicist Niels Bohr.