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Basically its a blanket of heavy hydrogen (deuterium) around a "regular" atomic bomb.
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What is another name for fusion bomb?
hydrogen bomb, or a nuclear bomb
How is fusion used in a hydrogen bomb?
a hydrogen bomb is a fusion bomb. even though in standard types of hydrogen bombs 90% of the yield is fission, caused by uranium-238 fission by 15 MeV neutrons from the fusion reaction.
What is another name for fusion?
hydrogen bomb, or a nuclear bomb
Maximam dengrus bomb between nuclear bomb or hydrogen bomb?
If you are asking which has the maximum danger, a hydrogen bomb is one type of nuclear bomb. In general, nuclear bombs can be fission (called atomic) or fusion (hydrogen) A fusion bomb is larger than an fission bomb, and actually uses a fission bomb to start the fusion reaction.
Why was the 1st Hydrogen bomb impractical?
Teller's so called "Classical Super" fusion bomb design of 1945 had excessive radiative heat loss and therefor could not sustain the D-T fusion burn.
Why a hydrogen bomb is called a hydrogen bomb?
The fusion reaction in thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) is caused by the nuclear fusion of different isotopes of hydrogen (tritium and deuterium), hence the name.
What is the result of the hydrogen bomb testing in 1950?
There were no nuclear tests in 1950 of either atomic fission or hydrogen fusion bombs.The first hydrogen fusion bomb tests were in 1951 in Operation Greenhouse and none of the devices were an actual hydrogen bomb. "Item" was a prototype tritium gas boosted fission bomb, "George" was a deuterium fusion ignition test with well over 95% of its yield the fission primary, and "Easy" and "Dog" were MK-5 and MK-6 atomic bomb design improvement verification tests.
What is the difference between a hydrogen bomb and an Uranium bomb and which one is more powerful?
Hydrogen bomb gets some of its energy from fusion, uranium or plutonium bomb gets all of it from fission. Either can be more powerful, depending on the design. The most powerful bombs built have all been hydrogen bombs.
What is the most powerful fusion weapon?
The hydrogen bomb basically it is the deuterium bomb which is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
What is stronger between the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb?
In general, a fusion bomb (hydrogen bomb) is more powerful than a fission (atomic) bomb. Fusion bombs use an atomic bomb to begin the fusion reaction.
What is the fuse for hydrogen bomb?
An Atomic bomb is the detonator for a Hydrogen bomb to create enough heat for the fission - fusion chain reaction.
Hydrogen bomb compared with atomic bomb?
A hydrogen or fusion bomb will be ten times more powerful than the original fission atomic bomb.
