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I start growing rapidly and this calcium atom grows along with me. | growing | {
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I start growing rapidly and this calcium atom grows along with me. | grows | {
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I shoot up through the roof, into the sky, past the clouds, through the stratosphere, out beyond the moon, out among the planets, until I am over a hundred and fifty million miles long. | shoot up | {
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I shoot up through the roof, into the sky, past the clouds, through the stratosphere, out beyond the moon, out among the planets, until I am over a hundred and fifty million miles long. | am | {
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Then this atom of calcium will swell to something like a great balloon a hundred yards across, a balloon big enough to put a football field inside. | swell | {
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Then this atom of calcium will swell to something like a great balloon a hundred yards across, a balloon big enough to put a football field inside. | put | {
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And if you should step inside of such a magnified atom, according to the physics of forty years ago, you would see circulating over your head, down at the sides, and under your feet, some twenty luminous balls about the size of footballs. | step | {
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And if you should step inside of such a magnified atom, according to the physics of forty years ago, you would see circulating over your head, down at the sides, and under your feet, some twenty luminous balls about the size of footballs. | see | {
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And if you should step inside of such a magnified atom, according to the physics of forty years ago, you would see circulating over your head, down at the sides, and under your feet, some twenty luminous balls about the size of footballs. | circulating | {
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These balls are moving in great circles and ellipses, and are of course, the electrons, the particles of negative electricity which by their action create the forces that tie this atom of calcium to the neighboring atoms of oxygen and make up the solid structure of my finger bone. | moving | {
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These balls are moving in great circles and ellipses, and are of course, the electrons, the particles of negative electricity which by their action create the forces that tie this atom of calcium to the neighboring atoms of oxygen and make up the solid structure of my finger bone. | make up | {
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Since these electrons are moving like planets, you may wonder whether there is an atomic sun at the center of the atom. | moving | {
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So you look down there and you see a tiny, whirling point about the size of the head of a pin. | look | {
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This is the atomic sun, the atomic nucleus. | is | {
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Even if the atom were big enough to hold a football field, this nucleus is still only about the size of a pinhead. | were | {
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Even if the atom were big enough to hold a football field, this nucleus is still only about the size of a pinhead. | hold | {
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Even if the atom were big enough to hold a football field, this nucleus is still only about the size of a pinhead. | is | {
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It is this atomic nucleus that contains the positive charge of electricity holding these negatively charged electrons in their orbits ; it also contains nearly all the mass, and the atomic energy. | is | {
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It is this atomic nucleus that contains the positive charge of electricity holding these negatively charged electrons in their orbits ; it also contains nearly all the mass, and the atomic energy. | contains | {
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You may ask what else there is, and the answer is nothing - nothing but empty space. | ask | {
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If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece o... | put | {
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Someone has remarked that this is certainly the ultimate in reducing. | is | {
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Now this 1920 view of the atom was on the whole a discouraging picture. | was | {
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The Island of Nantucket, part of the State of Massachusetts, lies about thirty-one miles southeast of its mother State. | lies | {
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"a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely",
"the act of testing something",
"a race run on foot",
"an unbroken series of events",
"(American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the o... | [
"sail before the wind"
] | [
"run%2:38:03::"
] |
During about three and a half months of the year, in the summer, there are three boats that run from the mainland to the Island carrying passengers, food, and cars ; but the rest of the year only one boat is needed, which ties up at the mainland nights and makes the trip down to Nantucket in the daytime. | carrying | {
"name": "carry",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"the act of carrying something",
"move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body",
"have with oneself; have on one's person",
"transmit or serve as the medium for transmission",
"serve as a means for expressing somethi... | [
"move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body"
] | [
"carry%2:35:02::"
] |
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