Search results for "Uranium-238" - New World Encyclopedia
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- chance. This balance is very delicate: a uranium-238 nucleus has a half-life ... ===Uranium-238 series (4n+2)=== [[Image: Radser3.gif |thumb|center|450px|]] ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- 235, and a lower probability of capture by uranium-238 than the faster neutrons that result from fission. As well as the moderator, thermal reactors ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 – August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- Actinium (chemical symbol Ac, atomic number 89) is a silvery, radioactive, metallic element. Due to its intense radioactivity, it glows in the ...7 KB (911 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- a 1 percent concentration; the rest is uranium-238 which will not fission ... uranium-235. The majority of uranium is uranium-238, the presence of which ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- Francium (chemical symbol Fr, atomic number 87) is a radioactive metal found in minute amounts in uranium and thorium ores. Although many isotopes ...6 KB (795 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Californium (chemical symbol Cf, atomic number 98) is a chemical element in the periodic table. A radioactive transuranic element, ...11 KB (1,466 words) - 18:27, 25 November 2023
- Geochronology is the science of determining the absolute ages of rocks, fossils, and sediments found on Earth. This field of science relies on ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- natural uranium), fast breeder reactors use uranium-238 (99.3 percent of all natural uranium). It has been estimated that there is up to five-billion ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Promethium (chemical symbol Pm, atomic number 61) is a metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. All of ...11 KB (1,429 words) - 23:55, 1 December 2022
- <!-- comment out. Rn-220? {{Elementbox_isotopes_decay | mn=222 | sym=Rn | na=syn | hl=55.6 s | dm=Alpha | de=6.404 | pn=216 | ps=Po }} ...15 KB (2,200 words) - 22:50, 7 December 2022
- One of those neutrons is absorbed by an atom of uranium-238, and does not continue the reaction. Another neutron is simply lost and does not collide ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- Lake Baikal ( о́зеро Байка́л Ozero Baykal , ˈozʲɪrə bʌjˈkɑl , Байгал нуур Baygal nuur ) sits in Southern Siberia ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- of radioactive decay chains that begin from uranium-238 (238U), uranium-235 (235U), and thorium-232 (232Th), respectively. The corresponding half ...18 KB (2,664 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó) (February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of ...29 KB (4,253 words) - 17:38, 23 May 2024
- Zircon is a mineral belonging to a subgroup of silicate minerals called nesosilicates. Chemically, it is known as zirconium silicate, with the ...9 KB (1,181 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- as a spontaneous fission product of uranium-238. This discovery was made by B.T. Kenna and P.K. Kuroda. LANL Periodic Table, "Technetium" ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- Bismuth (chemical symbol Bi, atomic number 83) is a brittle, white crystalline metal with a pink tinge. It acquires an iridescent oxide tarnish ...14 KB (1,891 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
