All 5 Uses of
nucleus
in
Childhood's End
- Perhaps, even now, his ship was already outward bound from Earth.... The sun which had deserted Taratua was still high above Lake Baikal when Konrad Schneider and the Assistant Commissar for Nuclear Science walked slowly back from the motor test rig.†
Chpt 1nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- Not in the least-though I draw the line at nuclear weapons, poison gas, or anything else that might strain our friendship.†
Chpt 4 *
- Because we banned nuclear weapons and all the other deadly toys you were accumulating in your armouries, the danger of physical annihilation was removed.†
Chpt 20
- Many worlds have come to the crossroads of nuclear power, have avoided disaster, have gone on to build peaceful and happy civilizations-and have then been utterly destroyed by forces of which they knew nothing.†
Chpt 20
- All we have discovered is that it starts with a single individual— always a child-and then spreads explosively, like the formation of crystals round the first nucleus in a saturated solution.†
Chpt 20nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
Definition:
the center (or most important part) of something
such as:
- in physics: the center of an atom where protons & neutrons are found
- in biology: the center of a cell where DNA is found
- in sociology: the closest family (mother/father/children in contrast to the extended family)