Example Sentences

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This drug can create a deep state of anesthesia and amnesia sufficient to block the pain of a surgeon’s knife or 400 joules of electricity delivered to reset a fibrillating heart.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024

Firstly, you've probably heard of the units of measurement for energy — calories — as well as the metric equivalent, which is joules.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2023

While the laser energy of 2 million joules was less than the fusion yield of 3 million joules, it took the facility nearly 300 million joules to produce the lasers used in this experiment.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2023

A 30.0 W lamp uses 30.0 joules per second.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

In a pure-oxygen environment, 16.7 million joules will be released for every kilogram of sugar used, releasing the explosive force of eight sticks of dynamite.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir