repulsions
- plural of repulsion.
Example Sentences
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This is because larger nuclei have more proton-proton repulsions, and require larger numbers of neutrons to provide compensating strong forces to overcome these electrostatic repulsions and hold the nucleus together.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Shielding is determined by the probability of another electron being between the electron of interest and the nucleus, as well as by the electron–electron repulsions the electron of interest encounters.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
We can also learn how to get over our repulsions.
From The Verge • May 9, 2018
Mr. Hastings writes incisively about the attractions and repulsions of the new media gossip.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2014
It is evidently based on the supposition that the "attractions and repulsions" are contra-acting forces which exactly balance each other, and so the molecules are held in their position by no force.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
