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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Occurring, operating, or situated between atoms.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Existing or acting between atoms, especially those of a single molecule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem. & Physics) Between atoms; situated, or acting, between the atoms of bodies.

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  • adjective Between atoms

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Examples

  • Some very interesting work was done on the relaxation of atoms back to the disordered state after pumping, which provided information on the mechanism acting in interatomic collisions and in collisions between atoms and the walls of the container.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1966 - Presentation Speech 1972

  • A bit of friction due to interatomic or ionic collisions drains the energy from the plasma.

    A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

  • Solving the 3D geometry is then an optimization problem where the task is to find the 3D geometry that best reproduces the factual interatomic distances.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Egon Willighagen 2006

  • Solving the 3D geometry is then an optimization problem where the task is to find the 3D geometry that best reproduces the factual interatomic distances.

    Uncertainty in NMR based 3D protein models Egon Willighagen 2006

  • These studies do not give factual data on atomic coordinates, but generally give facts about interatomic distances.

    Uncertainty in NMR based 3D protein models Egon Willighagen 2006

  • These studies do not give factual data on atomic coordinates, but generally give facts about interatomic distances.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Egon Willighagen 2006

  • It was found that these neutrons, like X-rays, were useful for crystal structure determinations because their associated de Broglie wavelengths also fall in the range of typical interatomic distances in solids.

    The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

  • Bragg (father and son) to measure interatomic distances and to analyse the geometrical arrangement of atoms in simple crystals.

    The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

  • The interatomic distances in a crystal match quite well the wavelengths of X-rays. von Laue worked out the theory for diffraction in a 3-dimensional grating and made predictions, which were verified by the experiments of W. Friedrich and P. Knipping.

    The Dual Nature of Light as Reflected in the Nobel Archives 1999

  • Now, I'm not positive about this, but I've heard that the Commonwealth armed forces have access to devices which can affect the interatomic bonds of elements.

    Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

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