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  • exist as uranium-238 (99.275 percent), uranium-235 (0.72 percent), and a ... each fission of the rare uranium isotope uranium-235. Further work found that ...
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  • Uraninite is a uranium-rich, radioactive mineral that is composed mainly of uranium dioxide (UO2). It is black or brownish and the principal ...
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  • Neptunium (chemical symbol Np, atomic number 93) is a silvery radioactive metallic element, belonging to the actinide series. It is the first ...
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  • as it spins, while the desired uranium-235 isotope is extracted and concentrated with a scoop selectively placed inside the centrifuge. It takes ...
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  • employed for enrichment of the isotope uranium-235, for use in nuclear reactors ... as it spins, while the desired uranium-235 isotope is extracted and ...
    11 KB (1,529 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
  • 231, which is formed by the alpha decay of uranium-235, could possibly sustain a nuclear chain reaction and might, in principle, be used to build ...
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  • produced by the natural radioactive decay of uranium-235 and uranium-238. Various compounds of astatine have been prepared in minute amounts, and the ...
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  • that it was possible to separate the isotope uranium-235. Simon's report included cost estimates and technical specifications for a large uranium ...
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  • Thorium (chemical symbol Th, atomic number 90) is a naturally occurring, slightly radioactive metal and is a member of the actinide series. It ...
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  • utilizing a purified isotope of uranium, uranium-235, and worked out that an ... Uranium-235 was separated by Nier and fission with slow neutron was ...
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  • Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum ...
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  • Fluorine (chemical symbol F, atomic number 9) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. Chemically, it is ...
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  • exist as uranium-238 (99.275 percent), uranium-235 (0.72 percent), and a ... each fission of the rare uranium isotope uranium-235. Further work found that ...
    48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
  • When a relatively large fissile atomic nucleus (usually uranium-235 ... a far higher probability of fissioning uranium-235, and a lower probability ...
    45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
  • nuclear fission chain reaction. 1. A uranium-235 atom absorbs a neutron, and fissions in two new atoms (fission fragments), releasing three new ...
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  • both. One fissionable nucleus is the uranium-235 isotope. This is found ... Project. The Hiroshima bomb was uranium-235; the Nagasaki bomb was ...
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  • Radium (chemical symbol Ra, atomic number 88) is an extremely radioactive element that is classified as an an alkaline earth metal. When freshly ...
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  • Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 – August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ...
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  • ===Uranium-235 series (4n+3)=== [[Image: Radser1.gif |thumb|center|450px|]] ===Thorium-232 series (4n+0)=== [[Image: Radser2.gif |thumb|center|450px|]] ...
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  • Actinium (chemical symbol Ac, atomic number 89) is a silvery, radioactive, metallic element. Due to its intense radioactivity, it glows in the ...
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  • energy. The other fissile materials are uranium-235 and uranium-233. Plutonium ... quot; bomb dropped on Hiroshima utilized uranium-235, not plutonium. ...
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