4. it has a melting point of 1340°C Curium was identified by Glenn Seaborg‚ Ralph James and Albert Ghiorso in 1944 at the wartime metallurgical laboratory at the University of Chicago. Its production was the result of helium-ion bombardment of Plutonium-239 in the Berkeley‚ Calif.‚ 60-inch cyclotron. Although curium follows americium in the periodic system‚ it was actually the third synthetically produced transuranium element to be discovered. 5. It was discovered by Glenn T. Seaborg‚ Ralph A.James
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Marty McFly time travels using a Delorean with a flux capacitor. It is fueled with plutonium‚ which is very troublesome for them‚ as they must figure out how to collect plutonium. However‚ when Marty visits the future‚ the car gets fitted with an upgrade that allows it to be fueled with waste and trash instead of plutonium. Additionally‚ the car must reach a maximum speed of 88 MPH to travel forwards or backwards through time‚ whichever is displayed by the interface presented by
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Iran and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime Firstly it’s important to identify what the treaty is and what it undertakes. According to the IAEA‚ The NPT aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology‚ to foster the peaceful uses of nuclear energy‚ and to further the goal of disarmament. The Treaty establishes a safeguards system under the responsibility of the IAEA‚ which also plays a central role under the Treaty in areas of technology transfer for peaceful purposes.
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Thesis: The research for the first Atomic bomb was done in the United States‚ by a group of the best scientists; this research was given the name of "The Manhattan Project". On Monday July 16th‚ 1945‚ a countdown for the detonation of the first atomic bomb took place near Los Alamos‚ New Mexico. This atomic bomb testing would forever change the meaning of war. As the atomic bomb was detonated it sent shock-waves all over the world. There was endless research done on the bomb in the United
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I am lucky enough to live in the beautiful state of Colorado. Colorado has an extensive supply of conventional fossil fuel and renewable energy resources. Per EIA (Energy Information Administration) 2009‚ "The State contains several fossil fuel-rich basins‚ including the Sand Walsh‚ Piceance‚ Paradox‚ and San Juan basins in the west‚ and the Denver and Raton basins in the east. Ten of the Nation’s 100 largest natural gas fields and three of its 100 largest oil fields are found in Colorado. Substantial
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aside the informal naming convention. They added that "the best we can do is to point out [that] ... searchers a century ago found it difficult to get to California." Weighable quantities of californium were first produced by the irradiation of plutonium targets at the Materials Testing Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory; and these findings were reported in 1954. The high spontaneous fission rate of californium-252 was observed in these samples. The first experiment with californium in concentrated
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intoxicating chemicals anymore." King Syphilis was quite mad. Nobody talked back to him and go away with it. "Bring me my plutonium phasor gun‚ so that I may vaporize this impudent guy‚" ordered the king. "I’m sorry‚ my good King Syphilis‚" replied another servant. "Since you deported all the nuclear engineers to the powder mines‚ we have been unable to operate the plutonium powered phasor gun." Now the king was really mad. "I’m really mad!" said the king. "Bring me my limousine‚ so that I may
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$22 billion today. The research would be done in over 30 locations across the United States‚ Canada‚ and The United Kingdom. The results of the mass amount of research and testing were two bombs; one Uranium bomb‚ codename: “Little Boy”‚ and one plutonium‚ codename: “Fat Man” (5). The bomb codenamed Little Boy would be dropped over Hiroshima‚ Japan 1 on 6 August 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber‚ The Enola Gay. The massive power if Little Boy came from the nuclear fission of uranium
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Nuclear energy is the energy created in a nuclear reaction which is the changes can occur in the structure of the nuclei of atoms. Nuclear energy was discovered in the mid-twentieth century and first utilized in a military capacity in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It all started rather innocently in 1896‚ when Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in Uranium. The next step came in 1902 when Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radioactive metal called Radium. In 1934‚ Enrico
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The Core Paper Several aspects of the film‚ The Core‚ directed by John Amiel‚ contain examples of “bad” science. Some of these instances of bad science include the following: a ship traveling through the mantle‚ the equipment tracking the ship from above the surface of Earth‚ the drilling through miles of rocks‚ the suits protecting people from the magma in the mantle‚ the equation created to calculate densities in the core‚ and the rearrangement of nukes while within the core. All of these feats
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