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What is likely to happen to atoms like plutonium with many neutrons and a heavy nucleus?
Radioactive disintegration or spontaneous fission
The splitting of an atom's nucleus into two smaller nuclei is called?
The splitting of an atomic nucleus into smaller nuclei is called nuclear fission.
What is the splitting of an atoms nucleus into two smaller nuclei is called?
nuclear fission
Can fission take place in the nucleus of hydrogen atom?
No, it cannot. Fission is the "splitting" of an atom, and a hydrogen atom will not fission. Some hydrogen atoms have a neutron stuck to the proton in their nucleus. Some even have two neutrons stuck to that proton. These neutrons can be "knocked loose" in something like a nuclear chair reaction in a weapon. The neutrons then can contribute to the building of the nuclear chain reaction. But fission doesn't happen to hydrogen.
What always splits when fission is around?
The nucleus of an atom always splits when fission occurs. Fission is a nuclear reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei.
The splitting of a heavy nucleus is called?
The splitting of a heavy nucleus is called nuclear fission. This process releases a large amount of energy and is the principle behind nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons.
What involves splitting a nucleus?
nuclear fission
What is The splitting of a heavy nucleus is called?
fission.
In a nuclear fission reaction a freely moving neutron is introduced to a nuclear fuel such as uranium-235. What happens next?
a neutron is absorbed by an atom’s nucleus. (apex)
How is nuclear produced?
by nucleoli fission reactions
How is the nucleus of an atom spilt?
Through nuclear fission.
What is the best definition of nuclear fission?
the splitting of a nucleus
