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What is the advantage of using tritium with deuterium in a hydrogen bomb?
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DT fusion has the lowest temperature/pressure of ignition of all fusion processes, and so is the easiest to start.
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What is heavy water in soda?
Deuterium Oxide. Heavy water is water formed using higher proportions of deuterium and tritium, unstable and heavier isotopes of hydrogen, for ease of storage of those particles before use in nuclear reactions.it is water
What materials besides deuterium and tritium can be used for fusion?
All elements below nickel and iron on the periodic table can undergo fusion, under the proper conditions.However due to limits on the conditions achievable within the casing of a bomb, only deuterium and tritium will work. However standard hydrogen bomb designs use the compound lithium deuteride instead (tritium is radioactive and using deuterium and tritium directly requires cryogenics severely complicating the device). Neutrons from fission cause the lithium to split, producing the tritium needed only moments before it is needed to make the bomb work.
What is the electrostatic repulsion force of deuterium and tritium... using Coulomb's Law?
Both deutrium and tritium have the same charge e, so the force of repulsion 1/4pi epsilon not * e2 / r2 here r is the distance between the two atoms.
When does nuclear fusion begin?
First deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes) are put in. Next they are compressed using many super electromagnets, producing heat, that fuses them together, making radioactive helium. Then the extra proton fall off, making stable helium.
How do you get tritium?
There are several ways to store tritium. It can be stored as a gas for short term storage (as in nuclear weapons -- the gas in the tritium reservoir needs to be replenished periodically; or tritium illumination for watches or survival gear -- these wear out and go dim over time.). For longer term and final storage, a hydride storage vessel using a uranium metal bed, or better yet, a titanium sponge can be used. Most of the gas can be recovered from these systems by desorption under vacuum. To remove the rest, isotopic exchange is required.
Is hydrogen a radioactive element?
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Where does hydrogen for bomb making come from?
There are 2 isotopes of hydrogen needed to make a hydrogen bomb: deuterium and tritium. Deuterium occurs naturally in small amounts mixed with ordinary hydrogen (just like uranium-235 occurs naturally in small amounts in natural uranium), it is obtained by a heavy water enrichment cascade using ordinary water as the input feed. Tritium does not occur naturally and must be manufactured by irradiating lithium with neutrons. Lithium is mined from the ground. The easiest way to manufacture the tritium for a hydrogen bomb is the in situ processwhere the bomb does it itself. The fuel for such a hydrogen bomb is lithium deuteride, fission generated neutrons irradiate the lithium deuteride, manufacturing tritium which mixes with the deuterium and the bomb is now ready to explode!Using a mixture of deuterium and tritium isotopes of hydrogen in the fusion bomb makes it practical as this mixture has the lowest ignition temperature.So to sum up your answer:deuterium is taken from watertritium is manufactured in the bomb from lithium, which is mined from the ground
What is heavy water in soda?
Deuterium Oxide. Heavy water is water formed using higher proportions of deuterium and tritium, unstable and heavier isotopes of hydrogen, for ease of storage of those particles before use in nuclear reactions.it is water
What materials besides deuterium and tritium can be used for fusion?
All elements below nickel and iron on the periodic table can undergo fusion, under the proper conditions.However due to limits on the conditions achievable within the casing of a bomb, only deuterium and tritium will work. However standard hydrogen bomb designs use the compound lithium deuteride instead (tritium is radioactive and using deuterium and tritium directly requires cryogenics severely complicating the device). Neutrons from fission cause the lithium to split, producing the tritium needed only moments before it is needed to make the bomb work.
How hydrogen effects society?
Hydrogen has many uses in society; not usually it's common form protium but it's two other popular isotopes deuterium and tritium. Deuterium and tritium are both used in the manufacturing of nuclear weapons and are being researched by scientists as possible energy sources when these two isotopes are put together in nuclear fusion. Tritium can be used as a nuclear tracer in some medical procedures. Deuterium can be used as a coolant in nuclear reactors and also used for high blood pressure treatment. Using fruit flies as subjects, feeding them certain amounts of deuterated water increased their lifespan by 30%; researchers are now looking into these results and possible applications to humans to increase lifespan.
What is the electrostatic repulsion force of deuterium and tritium... using Coulomb's Law?
Both deutrium and tritium have the same charge e, so the force of repulsion 1/4pi epsilon not * e2 / r2 here r is the distance between the two atoms.
When does nuclear fusion begin?
First deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes) are put in. Next they are compressed using many super electromagnets, producing heat, that fuses them together, making radioactive helium. Then the extra proton fall off, making stable helium.
How is nuclear fusion generated?
Attempts by man to do this use a mixture of deuterium and tritium (both isotopes of hydrogen) and heat them to hundreds of millions of degrees C using very strong magnetic fields, when the fusion reaction occurs. Up to now the best experiments have produced fusion but only held it for less than 1 second.
How do you get tritium?
There are several ways to store tritium. It can be stored as a gas for short term storage (as in nuclear weapons -- the gas in the tritium reservoir needs to be replenished periodically; or tritium illumination for watches or survival gear -- these wear out and go dim over time.). For longer term and final storage, a hydride storage vessel using a uranium metal bed, or better yet, a titanium sponge can be used. Most of the gas can be recovered from these systems by desorption under vacuum. To remove the rest, isotopic exchange is required.
How can an atom have no charge?
Any proton that is floating around will attract an electron and then it will 'be' hydrogen. To make deuterium (one neutron) you need to slam two hydrogens together hard enough to make them stick (think about pushing the two N ends of magnets together if they had glue on them - if you pushed to lightly they would repel each other and never stick. But if you pushed them hard enough you would get the glue to stick - this is kind of like the nuclear force (glue) and electrostatic force (repulsion)). So basically it is much easier to make Hydrogen than Deuterium - everything pretty much starts out as hydrogen and is then smashed together in suns/super novae etc to make all the other elements. Part of why there is so little Deuterium compared to, say, carbon is that it is easier to combine a deuterium and hydrogen atom to make Helium3 than it is to smash the two protons(H) together to make deuterium in the first place. (Like a bath tub that is being filled more slowly than it is being emptied - there is always a little water (Deuterium) but there will never be very much). On the other hand the processes that make carbon are easier than the processes that use it - so the carbon 'bathtub' fills up and we get a large amount of carbon hanging around the universe.The arrangement of a proton with an orbiting electron is energetically stable without a Neutron.
What gas is in an atom bomb?
Pure fission atom bombs contain no gas.Atom bombs using a technique called fusion boosting have a small canister of deuterium and/or tritium gas (hydrogenisotopes). Some of this gas is injected into the sealed hollow pit (core) of the bomb as the last stage of arming.
Using the periodic table entry below how many neutrons does the most common isotope of hydrogen have?
It depends on which element are u looking upon..if its hydrogen then it has three isotopes which have a different number of neutrons..this variation in the number of neutrons in the atoms of same element invented the concept of isotope.
