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- Conventional explosives are used to rapidly assemble a subcritical configuration of fissile material into a very supercritical configuration.
- A pulsed neutron source initiates the chain reaction.
- Enough heat is emitted to completely vaporize all materials of the bomb.
- The inertia of the vaporized depleted uranium tamper holds the expanding vaporized supercritical fissile core together for a little while to improve efficiency and yield.
- About 1 microsecond after initiation of the chain reaction, the fissile core has become subcritical again stopping the chain reaction.
- A large release of heat, light, blast, radiation, etc. races away from the burst.
Details of construction and materials affect all steps above.
What else can I help you with?
What are nuclear bombs made from?
Uranium, plutonium or hydrogen.
Does nuclear bombs have plutonium?
Some do. Others use Uranium.
Is uranium used more in atomic bombs than plutonium?
No, plutonium is used more. Uranium can only be used in gun type nuclear weapons, which are rarely used.
What metal isotopes are generally used in atom bombs and nuclear reactors?
plutonium and uranium
What kind of elements are in nuclear bombs?
In World War 2 the Nuclear bombs were Uranium and Plutonium. Nowadays they use Hydrogen.
How are uranium and plutonium alike?
Plutonium has the same composition as uranium, except for the fact that it contains one more neutron and one more proton. Actually Plutonium-239 has 2 more protons and 2 more neutrons than Uranium-235.
Which was the original element used in bombs?
If we are talking about the nuclear bombs used in ww2, 1 plutonium bomb and 1 uranium bomb.
Which two elements were used to produce the atomic bombs?
The key elements to making fission bombs are: Uranium and Plutonium. The specific isotopes of interest are: Uranium-233, Uranium-235, and Plutonium-239. But many other elements are needed to make a functional bomb. As a very rough guess, about a quarter of the elements on the periodic table are needed somewhere in the bomb, roughly 23 different elements in total.
What highly reactive mineral is used as a source of atomic energy for bombs?
No mineral. Two metals- uranium and plutonium- are used in atomic bombs.
What wasthe name of the second atom bomb?
The two atom bombs were the plutonium bomb and the uranium bomb.
What highly reactive Mineral is used as a good source of atomic energy for bombs?
No mineral. Two metals- uranium and plutonium- are used in atomic bombs.
Description of the dropping of both bombs?
One was an uranium fission bomb and the other was a plutonium implsion type bomb.
