adjective

• Existing or acting between atoms.

  ‘interatomic forces’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Also considered are interatomic forces and valence, the theory of solids, collision problems, radiation theory and relativistic quantum theory.’
  • ‘Here, distance is defined as the smallest interatomic distance between any two atoms in a pair of amino acids.’
  • ‘All protein atoms and directions of major interatomic currents are shown in figure 1.’
  • ‘The graphs are colored such that the shading progresses from dark to light when moving from short to long interatomic distances.’
  • ‘This means that molecules and organisms are held together by the tensile nature of interatomic bonds.’