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Origin of nuclear isomer

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby nuclear isomer

nuclear fission, nuclear-free zone, nuclear fuel, nuclear fusion, nuclearism, nuclear isomer, nuclearize, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance scanner, nuclear magneton, nuclear medicine

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How to use nuclear isomer in a sentence

But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
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He used negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program as an example.
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Gordon G. Chang is a Forbes.com columnist and the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World.
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Binding the resolution of my case to progress in the nuclear negotiations is profoundly unjust.
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“Heavy water”, or D2O, is even less common in nature, though nuclear engineers make and use it in some reactors.
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Upon careful inspection, however, delicate nuclear bands connecting the parts can usually be seen.
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After a detailed discussion by Hartson Brant of the properties and limitations of nuclear explosions, the conference agreed.
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Rick and Scotty watched the placement of the nuclear explosive—a simple steel can, from the outside—in the big hole.
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But even to the nuclear explosion those rocks won't mean much.
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Charlie was an engineer at the new nuclear powerhouse, just out of town.
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British Dictionary definitions for nuclear isomer

nuclear isomer

noun

the more formal name for isomer (def. 2)

Derived forms of nuclear isomer

nuclear isomerism, noun

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