The Element Niobium Atomic Number: 41 Atomic Weight: 92.90638 Melting Point: 2750 K (2477°C or 4491°F) Boiling Point: 5017 K (4744°C or 8571°F) Density: 8.57 grams per cubic centimeter Phase at Room Temperature: Solid Element Classification: Metal Period Number: 5 Group Number: 5 Group Name: none What’s in a name? Named for the Greek mythological figure Niobe. Say what? Niobium is pronounced as ni-OH-bee-um. History
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Nuclear waste is dangerous just about anyone knows that. But is it really that dangerous or is it simply overstated? The answer to this question is a heated debate that involves everybody from politicians pushing for policy they don’t really understand to scientists who are trying to understand it to the public who take everything they hear as the truth. Honestly‚ I don’t even know if I can iron out the edges of this frenzied debate. Everyone‚ and that includes me‚ has their own perspective of the
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Nuclear weapons are considered threats to the human race and have made the world an insecure residence for living organisms. Nuclear weapons are destructive weapons that obtain its force from nuclear fission and nuclear fusion reactions. Both of these procedures use the process of either splitting the atomic particles apart or joined together to absorb maximum energy. The questioning possibility of generating cumulative energy through the splitting of atoms was discussed during Rutherford’s time
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intentionally generated high-speed nuclear reaction. In the history of warfare‚ two nuclear weapons have been detonated—both by the United States in World War II. The first event occurred on the morning of 6 August 1945‚ when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The second event occurred three days later when‚ again‚ the United States dropped a plutonium implosion-type device code-named "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki.
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What I find most admirable about Albert Einstein is the way he thought up his theories and had the ability to conduct experiments on them. By doing this‚ he answered many questions of the scientific realm of the world. Some of the traits I admire are: 1. A trait I admire is his curiosity because he always wanted to find out how things worked. When he was five years old his father gave him a compass. It was a mystery to him. He wanted to know why the arrow always pointed north. His father
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The Stuxnet digital assault on the Iranian Nuclear facilities at Natanz is seen by a lot of people as the first genuine digital weapon. This makes Stuxnet’s super vitality as an issue unparalleled in present day digital world and particularly worth a debate. Lessons gained from the Stuxnet digital assault empower brainpower and the internet experts‚ as digital chiefs‚ to better work inside the area. Programmers around the world appear to be constantly programming security programs‚ for which states
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to be small compared of the dangers of not doing so‚ and significantly smaller than the other dangers we ignore‚” throughout his article. (p.254) Likewise‚ it has become common to dismiss the other present vulnerabilities‚ such as the “left over uranium in the soil‚” earthquakes and rising mountains that Muller expresses in “My
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Although when you first hear the word Krypton you just might automatically think of the planet in the Superman comics. Krypton is a chemical element of the periodic table. The periodic table has about one hundred and eighteen elements. Krypton is number thirty six in the periodic table it is in group eighteen period four. It is a part of the noble gas series. Its atomic number is thirty six and its atomic mass is eighty three point seven nine eight. It has forty eight neutrons in its most sufficient
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Marvin Baker Schaffer Toward a viable nuclear waste disposal program Energy Policy‚ Volume 39‚ Issue 3‚ March 2011‚ Pages 1382–1388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.12.010 Article history Received 16 August 2010 Accepted 6 December 2010 Available online 13 January 2011 M.I. Ojovan‚ W.E. Lee 20 – Nuclear Waste Disposal An Introduction to Nuclear Waste Immobilisation (Second Edition)‚ Oxford‚ 2014‚ Pages 321–335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-099392-8.00020-6 Article history
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available on this topic. Attached to this memo is a summary of one such source‚ Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Sime. This topic also meets the third criterion for a successful topic in this course‚ namely‚ that it be technical. The fission of an uranium nuclear involves an understanding of both chemistry and physics principles. By focusing on this single discovery‚ I believe that I can achieve the fourth criterion for a successful topic: the achievement of depth. Finally‚ because the library system
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