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Which is hotter the explosion of a thermonuclear bomb or the core of the sun and explain why?
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The temperatures are similar within about an order of magnitude, but the core of the sun is hotter.
The thermonuclear bomb is at the temperature of DT fusion, the lowest temperature at which fusion can occur. The sun, in addition to fusing DT, is fusing HH, HD, DD, DHe-3, TT, He-3He-3, all of which ignite at various temperatures higher than DT.
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How is energy produced in the suns core?
By thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen, producing helium. The same process that produces the energy in a hydrogen bomb (although the sun fuses far more hydrogen in the same period of time than the largest hydrogen bomb ever speculated would fuse during its entire explosion, thus producing more energy than such a bomb).
What is more stronger a comet explosion or a nuke explosion?
a comet explosion is more stronger and bigger than a nuke explosion and atomic bomb but not a hydrogen if you want something to be mor bigger than a hydrogen explosion call in a asteroid that's bigger than a hydrogen explosion and some meteors. ps I am the maker of the awnsers web site
Will the moon split in two with the NASA bomb?
Explain please.
What make stars light in the night?
Most of the celestial objects we call stars are stellar bodies much like our sun. Our sun is a large mass of hydrogen. There is so much hydrogen gathered together in one place that it all holds together by its own gravity. So much, that its own gravity is crushing the atoms together. Not just together in a way like we normally see here on Earth when we view solids, but together so tightly that the nuclei touch. And tighter still, until the nuclei fuse together. This is called nuclear fusion. On Earth we only experience this event when a thermonuclear bomb is detonated. A thermonuclear bomb (H-Bomb) makes an atom bomb look weak. There is so much hydrogen in our sun that this explosion was been going on for millions of years and will continue for millions more before it burns out. And there are stars out there that make our sun look like a midget. Some of the things we call stars are the remains of some of these giants who ended their lives in an explosion beyond all comprehension called a super nova. Some of the stars aren't really stars at all but an enormous collection of stars called galaxies. All different and yet all the same because all that light comes from the same process ...... nuclear fusion.
What was the biggest nuclear explosion?
The biggest nuclear explosion in history was a 50 megaton (equivalent to 50 million tons of tnt) bomb tested by the soviet union called the "Tsar Bomb". nobody was killed in the blast. the previous answer was completely false, Chernobyl was one of the smallest nuclear explosions in history, smaller than the Hiroshima bomb, which was only 17 kilotons (17 thousand tons of tnt, almost 3000 times smaller than the Tsar Bomb). People were mainly killed by the radiation. The blast didn't even kill everybody inside the actual plant (I'm not sure how many were killed in the blast, if somebody would like to add to this)
Are new clear bombs hotter than the sun?
Is a neutron bomb hotter than the sun ______________________________________ No, not generally. A thermonuclear explosion (a hydrogen fusion bomb, unlike the earlier uranium fission bombs) will approach the temperature of the Sun, but will not equal it, and it will only last for a fraction of a second.
Why are the high temperatures produced by the explosion of a fission bomb necessary to initiate fusion in a thermonuclear device?
On the order of 10 million K.
Is a hydrogen bomb thermonuclear?
Yes.
What is a explosion?
A thermonuclear explosion occurs when an element, usually hydrogen or helium, is heated to the point that the nuclei of atoms become unstable. The result is fusion, when atoms combine to form the atoms of heavier elements, giving off enormous amounts of energy, which sustains the heat that resulted in fusion. In a "hydrogen" bomb, the initial energy to achieve the required temperature is provided by a small atomic (fission) bomb. The thermonuclear energy is dissipated in an enormous explosion. This process occurs naturally in the sun and stars.
Why is potassium not used instead of hydrogen in bombs?
Potassium is a salt, a crystalline substance and is not radioactive sufficiently enough to achieve the level of critical mass necessary to energize such an explosive reaction. A hydrogen bomb is a two-stage nuclear device that actually uses a lower-level nuclear reaction to energize a higher-level thermonuclear explosion. That higher-level thermonuclear explosion is what you call a hydrogen bomb. Tom Clancy gave a brilliant explosion of such a device in his book "The Sum of All Fears".
How a nuclear bomb works?
Well, the technical explanation is very complicated, so I will make it more simple: there are the fission bomb, and the thermonuclear bomb. The fission bomb makes an explosion through the splitting of atom. Atom is the smallest measurement. There are neutrons and photons in a atom. But when you split the atom to make a big explosion, you do not use any atom. We usually use an atom of uranium-235. When the uranium atom is split, the normal amount of neutrons or photons does not come out. Then the neutrons release lots of energy! (Very simple explanation: A fission bomb is a bomb that uses energy from splitting uncontrolled atoms. And a thermonuclear bomb is just opposite to fission bomb, it gets energy from fusion of atoms to make a heavier one.
What was the largest nuclear bomb?
When people talk about nuclear bombs, they are generally in two categories; atomic and thermonuclear. Atomic bombs are like the ones dropped on Japan in 1945.Thermonuclear bombs have never been used in warfare and involve using an atomic bomb to set off an explosion of a thermonuclear bomb, like a hydrogen bomb.IN ADDITION:The Soviet exploded the largest nuclear bomb to date back in 1961. It was a hydrogen bomb which released energy equivalent to 57 megatons of TNT. Compare that to the 15 kilotons of energy released by the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan during WWII ( 3,800 times more energy released). The name of this device was Tsar Bomba, meaning "king of bombs."
Does a hydrogen bomb contain uranium?
Yes, a Thermonuclear Weapon (or Hydrogen Bomb) contains a core of Plutonium-239 and Uranium-235. A hydrogen bomb (thermonuclear fusion device) is triggered by a conventional thermonuclear fission bomb, and therefore has a core of fissionable materials such as U-235 and Pu-239. The fission device acting as a trigger is in turn triggered by conventional chemical explosives.
What type of reaction occurs when a thermonuclear bomb explodes?
A fusion reaction.
Which one does more damage the atomic bomb or the thermonuclear bomb?
still, an normal atomic bomb is more powerful. a thermonuclear bomb can easily take out a base since the thermal energy it produces will easily deep-roast everything it touches, but it doesnt turn an entire city into ash in seconds, as do with a normal atomic bomb.
What would happen if a thermonuclear bomb went off?
Your mom would explode.
What are some thermonuclear weapons?
The most well known is probably the hydrogen bomb.
