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What most likely accounts for the difference between curve A and curve B on the energy diagram?
The reaction described by curve B is occurring with a catalyst.
How is energy released in nuclear fussion?
By fusing hydrogen or hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium) into helium. The result requires less residual binding energy1 than the original components due to the mass deficit curve. The excess residual binding energy is released, mostly in the form of heat and other energetic particles. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1Binding energy holds quarks together to form protons and neutrons. Residual binding energy, also know as nuclear force, holds protons and neutrons together to form the nucleus.
What type of energy is a curve ball is it kinetic?
Basically, if it moves, it has kinetic energy. And if it is above ground level, it has gravitational potential energy.
What most likely accounts for the difference between curved a and curve b on the energy diagram?
The reaction described by curve B is occurring with a catalyst.
How is nuclear energy lost?
Energy is not lost, nor is it created. It can only be moved from one frame of reference to another. The same goes for mass. When you say that energy is "lost", you seem to be asking what happens during various fission or fusion processes that result in the release of energy. If this is not correct, please restate the question and give more details as to what you want. When nuclear interactions such as fission or fusion occur, the residual binding energy (part of the strong interaction) required to sustain the end result is often less than the energy required to sustain the original configuration. We call this a mass defect or deficit, because mass and energy are equivalent to each other by Einstein's mass-energy equivalence equation e = mc2. This excess mass/energy is released to the system in the form of free energy, radiation, particles, etc. It is not actually "lost"; it is moved from being used to hold things together to where it is no longer needed to do so. (And neither is the mass "lost"; it is simply carried away in the energy, because mass is energy and energy is mass.) That's the simple answer. On a slightly more complex level, each nuclide has its own requirement for binding energy, and if you plot energy versus nuclide, you discover a curve. Starting with hydrogen and going up the list, the energy curve increases. There is a steep jump from hydrogen to helium, then it comes back down slightly, and then goes back on up to around iron. Beyond iron, however, the curve is generally decreasing, and it continues to do so to the end of the elemental list. Because of this curve that is increasing with the light nuclides, and decreasing with the heavy nuclides, we find that fusion of the light nuclides releases energy, while fission of the heavy nuclides also releases energy. Certainly, you could fission light nuclides, or fuse heavy nuclides, but because of the slope of the curve, you would have to contribute energy, and lots of it, so that just does not happen. The related link below has a picture of the curve. The second related link below has the article that contains the picture along with further explanation.
Can a hydrogen nuclear fission reaction restart the hydrogen fusion reaction?
No, hydrogen does not fission. Fission only occurs in heavy elements that are well past the peak in binding energy per nucleon (where binding energy per nucleon is decreasing), and fusion can only occur in light elements which are in the portion of the binding energy curve where binding energy per nucleon is increasing. When you fission a heavy element or fuse light elements, the product nuclei have higher binding energies per nucleon than the original element. This is where the energy release comes from. Check out the Wikipedia article on nuclear binding energy.
Is nuclear fission an exothermic process?
Nuclear fission is an exothermic reaction if the specific nuclide involved is on the down slope of the binding energy per nucleon curve, i.e. it is on the high end of the curve, having high mass, such as for uranium and plutonium. For more information, please see the related link, which contains an explanation of the binding energy per nucleon curve and a picture.
How does binding energy per nucleon vary with mass number?
Elements with intermediate atomic mass numbers have the greatest binding energies.The binding energy per nucleon increases as mass number increases up to 56, then binding energy decreases as mass number increases above 56.
Nuclear fission is a type of nuclear reaction in which the nucleus is?
Nuclear fission is a type of nuclear reaction in which the nucleus is split into two or more parts, releasing excess binding energy that is available due to the negative slope (for high mass nuclides) of the binding energy per nucleon curve. See the Related Link below for more information.
How does fusion release energy?
In the case of the sun, we get the energy by radiation. In man-made fusion, which has not been achieved yet except for a very brief moment in an experimental facility, it is hoped to get the energy which will be emitted by the gaseous plasma. Theoretically, more energy should be released than is put in to start the plasma reaction. However the actual design of a working plant is not as far as I know established yet.
What would happen if you fused the two heaviest elements?
You would wind up with a new element. However, the probability of actually doing this is extremely remote, because the slope of the energy per nucleon curve is negative at this end of the periodic table. The only place where you would find the energy to accomplish this would be inside a supernova.
Features of indifference curve?
two indifference curve never cut each other..
Main features of frequency curve?
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What type of power splits atoms?
Atomic energy, also called Nuclear energy (since it is the nucleus, or core, of the atom that is split).When the atoms are split, the nuclear energy is a result of what is called Nuclear Fission. When the atoms are merged, the nuclear energy is a result of what is called Nuclear Fusion.
Does blanket binding go around curve's Or can you only use it for straight stitch?
Blanket binding that you purchase is cut on the straight grain and can only be used on straight edges. To bind curves, you must have bias binding.
How much oxygen is actually utilised by the muscles?
Look up a hemoglobin oxygen-binding curve, that will tell you.
Why does the oxygen equilibrium curve of mammalian hemoglobin have a sigmoidal shape?
Because the binding of oxygen to hemoglobin is cooperative, i.e. it exhibits positive cooperativity. This essentially means that the binding of the first molecule of oxygen facilitates the binding of the second, and so on.
