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They are made by stars through nuclear fusion. While we mostly use nuclear fusion just with hydrogen into helium, the nuclear fusion process can be used to make any and every element. All elements* up to Iron, yield energy during the fusion process. To procceed above iron, the fusion process takes energy, rather then supplying it.
*minus a few select isotopes
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What conditions of a supernova cause elements that are heavier than iron to form?
Because for a star to fuse elements heavy elements (iron and heavier) it would actually consume energy rather than liberate it. That doesn't work well to keep the star "alive." The explosion of the supernova itself can create these heavier elements because of the heat of the blast.
Scientists make elements heavier than uranium in what machines?
nuclear reactors produce large quantities efficiently but with undesired isotope impurities due to the high neutron fluxparticle accelerators produce limited quantities of pure isotopesnuclear explosives (especially fusion bombs) are even more efficient than reactors due to the much higher neutron energy spectrum, but the product are difficult to collectThe furthest transuranic elements produced have all been produced in quantities too small to test chemically by use of special particle accelerators firing massive ions. They all had halflives so short as to barely allow them to be verified by measuring their radiation as they decayed.
Why do scientists try to make new elements?
Why not? Some people are curious about how fast they can make a car go. Others are interested in how the universe made the elements we now have and their curiosity lead them to try to make new elements. Short answer ... curiosity.
How do elements that follow uranium produce?
They're produced in a nuclear reactor. Basically atoms of one element are bombarded with other smaller atoms. The idea is to make them stick together to form a heavier atom. So theorectically take Uranium say U 238/92 and bombard with Carbon say C 12/6 and you hope to make Californium Cf 250/98. That is a very simplified explanation. An online search may reveal more information.
Are newly discovered elements products of combustion?
Newly discovered elements, those odd trans-uranium metals that inhabit the extreme upper end of the periodic table, are notproducts of combustion. Combustion is, in general, a chemical process. Only a nuclear process of some kind can create these ultra-heavy elements. We know that the elements up through uranium are created in stars (with the trans-iron elements created in supernovae). The heaviest elements, those that are most recelty discovered, were created by man.We use some kind of nuclear accelerator (like a cyclotron, for example) to launch particles or heavy nuclei at samples of the heaviest elements. This can result in having those target nuclei capture the particles or heavy ions and change into a yet heavier element. Additionally, continuous bombardment produces heavier still nuclei (along with a good bit of radiation).
Scientists make elements heavier then uranium in machines called?
Particle accelerators and nuclear reactors
What is the 2 or more elements that make uranium?
Uranium is a chemical element and doesn't contain other elements,As all chemical elements uranium is formed from protons, neutrons and electrons.
What machine does scientist use to make element heavier than uranium?
particle accelerators and nuclear reactors
What conditions of a supernova cause elements that are heavier than iron to form?
Because for a star to fuse elements heavy elements (iron and heavier) it would actually consume energy rather than liberate it. That doesn't work well to keep the star "alive." The explosion of the supernova itself can create these heavier elements because of the heat of the blast.
What elements were used to make plutonium?
The isotope uranium-238 is the source of plutonium.
What is the element uranium used for in medicine?
reactors to make medical isotopes of other elements
What conditions of a Supernova cause elements that are heavier that iron to form?
The rapid collapse of the star compresses atoms together and may cause nuclear fusion and make heavier elements.
Scientists may make new elements in the future?
True
Scientists make elements heavier than uranium in what machines?
nuclear reactors produce large quantities efficiently but with undesired isotope impurities due to the high neutron fluxparticle accelerators produce limited quantities of pure isotopesnuclear explosives (especially fusion bombs) are even more efficient than reactors due to the much higher neutron energy spectrum, but the product are difficult to collectThe furthest transuranic elements produced have all been produced in quantities too small to test chemically by use of special particle accelerators firing massive ions. They all had halflives so short as to barely allow them to be verified by measuring their radiation as they decayed.
How are the sun and other stars and Uranium 235 similar and different?
Well, Uranium is an element, while the sun is a nuclear reaction (fusion). All stars are fueled by fusion reactions, which produce elements inside their core all the way upto Iron. Heavier elements, such as Uranium (and gold, and silver, and mercury, and such) are produced when a very large star (larger then out sun) goes super nova. So much energy is released that the iron and other elements that were produced by fusion, are forced together to make even heavier elements. The reason that the sun (and all stars in their normal life span) stop at iron, is because Iron is the heaviest element that can be made by fusion before the process begins to use up energy, rather then yield energy.
What is a nuclear power plants original energy form?
Assuming "FROM". Supernova stars. As stars age, they run out of hydrogen for fusion. Large stars can fuse heavier and heavier elements... such as uranium. When they run out of stuff to fuse, they can collapese and explode. The stars blew up, spreading the uranium around the universe... and when new solar systems form, that uranium is part of their make up and available via mining to create nuclear energy.
Which two elements were used to produce the atomic bombs?
The key elements to making fission bombs are: Uranium and Plutonium. The specific isotopes of interest are: Uranium-233, Uranium-235, and Plutonium-239. But many other elements are needed to make a functional bomb. As a very rough guess, about a quarter of the elements on the periodic table are needed somewhere in the bomb, roughly 23 different elements in total.
