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molecular beam

noun

, Physics.
  1. a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.


molecular beam

noun

  1. physics a parallel beam of molecules that are at low pressure and suffer no interatomic or intermolecular collisions
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Arcot accelerated away from it as Fuller hit it with a molecular beam.

The molecular beam projector simply projected the field that caused molecular motion to take place as wanted.

Wade caught it with a molecular beam, and it became a blazing wreck on the ground.

Arcot suspended it on the molecular beam while Wade melted it with the heat beam.

Waiting no longer to determine that it was not a ship of this world, he shot a molecular beam at it.

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