nuclear physics
Noun
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Noun
nuclear physics (uncountable)
- The branch of physics that studies the nucleus of the atom, its internal structure and components.
- 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD (2013 reprint), ISBN 0393958035, page 53.
- ‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.
- 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD (2013 reprint), ISBN 0393958035, page 53.
- French: physique nucléaire
- German: Kernphysik
- Portuguese: física nuclear
- Russian: я́дерная фи́зика
- Spanish: física nuclear
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