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Example sentences for: quantum

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This is not surprising, given the higher quantum yield and extinction coefficient of EYFP as compared to ECFP, both of which result in higher fluorescence intensity.
In 1786 Robert Burns used it in his poem, Epistle to a Young Friend, in which he, interestingly, warned against casual sexual indulgence: I waive the quantum o' the sin, / The hazard of concealing; / But, och! it hardens a' within, / And petrifies the feeling.
The English equivalent of this German word is spin quantum number . Were it to be spelled *spinquantumnumber or were the German word to be spelled *impuls quantum zahl , people would have other impressions, yet both words have exactly the same number of syllables (five) and letters (seventeen).
It gets mired in techno-speak and stars the dopey-looking Scott Bakula ( Quantum Leap ), who is no Harrison Ford, though even Harrison Ford would look silly saying things like, "Run all our emergency utility programs.
In Hawking's quantum cosmology, the pointlike singularity of the big bang is replaced by a smooth hemisphere in which space and time are commingled.