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You question is far from clear, but nuclear weapons use a high explosive "trigger". The chemical explosives serve to crush nuclear materials into a very dense form, starting a nuclear chain reaction. There have been many different explosives used for that purpose- explosives used in modern day weapons is rather classified, and we don't discuss classified materials here.
The chemical explosives used in most nuclear weapons since the 1960s have been PBXs (Plastic Bonded Explosives). However there are literally many dozens of different PBXs, each having different properties. PBXs were selected for safety: they are insensitive to shock or fire.
I am not sure what you mean by "cycle". The only thing I know of with a name like that was cyclonite, an explosive used in some nuclear weapons in the 1950s, but it is very shock sensitive and thus unsafe.
Some unclassified information on nuclear weapon explosives is available in Chuck Hansen's work Swords of Armageddon.
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What is plutonium cycle?
Plutonium obtained in nuclear reactors with uranium fuels after recycling of the burned fuels can be used also as a nuclear fuel.
What is the nitroge carbon and oxygen cycle?
This is a series of nuclear fusion reactions that converts ordinary hydrogen (single protons) into helium in the cores of stars somewhat heavier than the sun. The carbon, nitrogen and oxygen are only catalysts; they are not formed or destroyed. See the Wikipedia article "CNO cycle" for all the gory details.
What are the two other names for Krebs cycle?
Citric Acid Cycle TCA Cycle (tricarboxcylic acid cycle).
What cycles depends on the fact that water is able to exist as a solid a liquid and a gas on Earth The nitrogen cycle the water cycle the carbon cycle or the phosphorus cycle?
I think its the water cycle
Which cycle is decomposition important?
The carbon cycle
Can nuclear power plants produce materials that can be converted to nuclear weapons?
most cannot, as to produce weapons grade plutonium the fuel cycle must be made very very short. however soviet RBMK reactors and the US hanford N reactor were designed explicitly to produce both electric power and weapons grade plutonium.
Can you show me a photo of the nuclear cycle?
not really.
What is the value of water cycle of living things?
Water is one of the major ingredient of life. Thats why water cycle is important for living beings.
What happens during the phase of the cell cycle?
Nuclear division
When during the cell cycle is the nuclear membrane visible?
Interphase
What phase in the cell cycle dissolves the nuclear membrane?
The Nuclear membrane dissolves during prophase
What is they connection of cell cycle and mitiosis?
Mitosis is a stage of nuclear division in the cell cycle represented by the letter"M"
How does the Nuclear fuel cycle process give off carbon emissions?
it does not
When does DNA and nuclear proteins become visible in the cell cycle?
prophase
What stage in the cell cycle do new nuclear envolopes form?
The telophase of mitosis (Mitosis is the second stage of the cell cycle)
What is plutonium cycle?
Plutonium obtained in nuclear reactors with uranium fuels after recycling of the burned fuels can be used also as a nuclear fuel.
What stage does the nuclear envelope reform around the chromosomes?
In the cell cycle, the nuclear envelope reforms around each cluster of chromosomes in telophase.
