Atom and Substance

Atom

Atom noun - (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.

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Substance and atom are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Substance" instead a noun "Atom".

Nearby Words: atomize, atomic, atomistic, atomics, atomism

Substance noun - The basic elements from which something can be developed.

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Atom and substance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Atom" instead a noun "Substance".

common	common atom	common substance
solid	solid atom	solid substance
single	single atom	single substance
blue	blue atom	blue substance
Other adjectives: little, new, glowing, yellow, able, red, radioactive.

It's a single atom thick, and since the atom is carbon (atomic number 6, very low on the periodic table), it's thinner than you can get pretty much any substance without distributed electron orbitals to stiffen it, and it's essentially the strongest material known that operates on that scale.

Source: Sharpened to a Single Atom
However, he is an absolute genius, responsible (fictionally) for the creation of the atom bomb, and later Ice-9, a substance that causes the end of the world.

Source: Bunny-Ears Lawyer
In the Disney Comics Crisis Crossover Dangerous Currency, main villain Negaduck had a swarm of atom-sized versions of himself created, which together form a black inky substance known as the Slime.

Source: Fusion Dance

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