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Calculate the energy required to remove one proton and one neutron from Helium 4?
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Calculate the rest energy of the alpha particle and the products using E=mc^2, then take the difference (initial - final) between the initial and final states. If your final proton and neutron are independent, use the individual proton and neutron mass in your calculation. If they come off as a deuterium, use the mass of deuterium in the calculation.
So you get E(4He) - E(2H) -E(mp) - E(mn) in the former case, and E(4HE) - 2E(2H) in the latter case.
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Can helium be turned into hydrogen to produce energy?
No, energy is produced by the opposite reaction, hydrogen to helium
How is fission used to calculate the energy required?
You don't use fission to do the actual calculation. Fission can RESULT in energy being released, though.
Who recognised that large energy is released as a result of the fusion of hydrogen nuclei to form deuterium?
The most likely fusion reaction to be exploited is deuterium + tritium forming helium +a neutron, not what you have put in your question. The physics of this was worked out by Hans Bethe
How do you calculate Nuclear Power?
The fission of one U-235 nucleus releases 200 MeV of energy, which is equal to 3.2 x 10-11 Joules. So to calculate the nuclear energy released per second from a known amount of U-235 you need to know the number of fissions happening every second. This can be calculated from the neutron flux in the reactor and the amount of uranium contained. It's not straightforward because the neutron flux has an axial and a radial variation that can change with time, but computer programs can deal with this and come up with an answer. This enables the designer to decide how many fuel assemblies will be required to produce a certain reactor output.
Can helium be used as a type of energy source?
No. Helium is an inert, non-flammable gas, so it can not be used as an energy source. Hydrogen, however, is a perfect energy source.
Where does the sun gets energy from and goes to light and heat?
The sun uses nuclear fusion to produce light and energy. the process is relatively complicated but simplified it looks something like this. step 1: hydrogen atom + hydrogen atom = deutrerium atom (an isotope of hydrogen (one extra neutron)) + positron + neutrino step 2: Deutrerium atom + hydrogen atom = helium 3 (an isotope of Helium (missing one neutron)) + energy step 3: helium 3 atom + helium 3 atom = helium atom + hydrogen atom + hydrogen atom + energy.
What is ionization energy and which element has the lowest ionization energy?
The energy required for an element to ionize and helium has the lowest.
What is tritium emits?
Tritium decays by beta decay (emits high energy electron converting one neutron to a proton) resulting in Helium-3.
What is the total binding energy and binding energy per nucleon on helium-3 The Answer is BE 7.72MeV and BENUC 2.57MeV. I don't know the steps to get there?
To find the total binding energy Use this formula: B= (number of neutrons)(neutron mass)+ (number of protons)(proton mass) - (Atomic Mass of helium). Then to keep the units correct, multiply that entire expression by 931.5 MeV/u. This is the TOTAL binding energy, and the binding energy per nucleon can be found by dividing the number you calculate above by the total number of protons and neutrons.
What else apart from energy is released during nuclear fusion?
If you fuse deuterium (1p, 1n) with tritium (1p, 2n), you get helium (2p, 2n) plus a free neutron, plus the released energy
What does the fusion of hydrogen nuclei create?
Fusion of two hydrogen nuclei results in the formation of helium and a stray neutron. H31 + H21 -----> He42 + n10 The hydrogen with atomic number 3 is trituim and the hydrogen with atomic no. 2 is deutrium. They both fuse together to form Helium with the release of a spray neutron, accompanied by a large release of energy.
Calculate the efficiency of glycolysis if 12 kcal of energy are required to transfer energy from glucose to ATP?
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How much energy is required to remove a neutron from ground state U-236 to make it U-235?
It is unclear exactly how a single neutron could be removed from a Uranium-236 nucleus to create a Uranium-235 nucleus. (It would probably prove quite difficult to do.) As to the energy required to do this, about all we can do is look at the binding energy of this nucleus. It turns out that the binding energy per nucleon in the U236 nucleus is about 7.6 MeV (million electron volts). This suggests that it would take a minimum of about 7.6 MeV to pluck that neutron from the U236 nucleus to create the U235 nucleus.
Can helium be turned into hydrogen to produce energy?
No, energy is produced by the opposite reaction, hydrogen to helium
Why must a star convert helium after it has converted all of its hydrogen to helium?
Helium is the star's source of energy and if it has no energy the star would die.
What do scientists mean when they talk about strong nuclear force and binding energy?
Nuclear forces are those forces which act in very short ranges and they are independent on the charge carried by that particle , for example nuclear forces are seen to act between neutron - proton, proton-proton,neutron-neutron and these forces are attractive in nature .These forces act when the above particles are very close to each other in the nucleus. Whereas Binding energy is the energy required to maintain the particles,neutron ;proton, in the nucleus.
What would be the advantages in using nuclear fusion to supply your energy needs in the future?
Tho only waste products would be Helium and a very small volume of the reactor that had become radioactive from neutron activation.
