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What is the temperature in a hydrogen bomb?

At the instant of detonation, the temperature at the core of the fusion reaction is high enough for the fusion of deuterium with tritium, and of tritium with tritium (50,000,000°C and 400,000,000°C, respectively.


What is another name for fusion bomb?

hydrogen bomb, or a nuclear bomb


How is fusion used in a hydrogen bomb?

a hydrogen bomb is a fusion bomb. even though in standard types of hydrogen bombs 90% of the yield is fission, caused by uranium-238 fission by 15 MeV neutrons from the fusion reaction.


What is another name for fusion?

hydrogen bomb, or a nuclear bomb


Maximam dengrus bomb between nuclear bomb or hydrogen bomb?

If you are asking which has the maximum danger, a hydrogen bomb is one type of nuclear bomb. In general, nuclear bombs can be fission (called atomic) or fusion (hydrogen) A fusion bomb is larger than an fission bomb, and actually uses a fission bomb to start the fusion reaction.


Why a hydrogen bomb is called a hydrogen bomb?

The fusion reaction in thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) is caused by the nuclear fusion of different isotopes of hydrogen (tritium and deuterium), hence the name.


What is the most powerful fusion weapon?

The hydrogen bomb basically it is the deuterium bomb which is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.


What is stronger between the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb?

In general, a fusion bomb (hydrogen bomb) is more powerful than a fission (atomic) bomb. Fusion bombs use an atomic bomb to begin the fusion reaction.


What is the fuse for hydrogen bomb?

An Atomic bomb is the detonator for a Hydrogen bomb to create enough heat for the fission - fusion chain reaction.


Hydrogen bomb compared with atomic bomb?

A hydrogen or fusion bomb will be ten times more powerful than the original fission atomic bomb.


What is the difference between the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb?

fission vs fusion


What is the principle used in the hydrogen bomb?

Nuclear fusion.