k-shell
K壳
Definitions
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Physics.
- : the first shell of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom and containing, when filled, two electrons having principal quantum number 1.
Examples
“Please, please do not permit this to happen here in Florida,” wrote Cris K. Smith of East Polk County.
His monotonous music is, really, like the audio soundtrack to a k-hole.
Their friends noticed, and asked Sabrine to talk to him to bring him out of his shell a little.
Only the L, K, and A of the old sign remain stuck to the side of the office.
Another said just the act of spending money on self-improvement made him determined to break out of his shell.
What more could one desire of him, I pray, Than just to hop around and stand for K?
Off flew the shell, seven miles it flew; over the Turkish Army from one sea into another.
He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"
Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
From pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.