What element is used in making nuclear weapons?

Question

Tell whether it's a solid, liquid, or gas.

Answer 1

In "hydrogen" bombs, lithium deuteride, a solid, (lithium hydride with deuterium as the hydrogen isotope) is typically used. When bombarded with neutrons from the primary fission bomb, the lithium decays to tritium adding to the fusion explosion. Gaseous hydrogen is NOT used in these devices.

Answer 2

hmm..some very good answers...here's a piggy back on some of them

uranium 235 - solid. mostly used for shot gun weapons where fission is induced by rapidly bringing two sub critical pieces together very quickly. not as common anymore due to the difficulty in separation from uranium 238, but still out there.

plutonium239-solid. most common material used for most implosion type weapons.

plastic explosives. solid. forms the explosive lens assembly for the implosion weapon.

tritium. gas. used to boost the reaction. sort of like throwing gas on a fire.

lithium deturide. solid. stable form of hydrogen fuel used in the second stage of a weapon.

beryllium. solid. metal used as a reflector to hold or increase the flow of neutrons back into the weapon to increase its yield.

hydrogen. liquid under pressure. used in the first U.S. hydrogen bomb only, due to the difficult nature of keeping a constant amount present t support the explosion. sure made a large crater though.

steel. solid. used for the casing and support items.

cobalt. solid. metal used to increase the amount of "dirty fallout" from the weapon.

"depleted uranium". solid. an additional reflector for the neutrons.

their are many other materials used. those listed above are the most common.

go to the link below to learn more.

Answer 3

URANIUM (Solid) , Specifically Uranium's natural extract URANIUM - 235 (Solid) which reacts gets itself in radioactivity simply because of having more unstable particles that defies the OCTET RULE , a rule that says that for a stable element it takes 8 particles , however Uranium 235 has hundreds of unstable particles and because it is an extract it reacts with H2 or simply O of any form itself Plutonium (Solid) can be a substitute or even a catalyst

Answer 4

That depends on how big the bang you want. There are three different elements used.

1) Plutonium- Solid
2) Hydrogen- Gas
3) Uranium- Solid

Answer 5

U235 is an isotope of Uranium that is used to make atomic bombs.
Plutonium can also be used. Both are solids. UF6 (uranium hexafloride) is a gas used in centrifuges to isolate U235 from the far more common U238.

Answer 6

Plutonium solid

Answer 7

Three major elements have been used, depending on the size of the "bang" desired.

Uranium -- solid
Plutonium -- solid
Hydrogen -- gas

Answer 8

uranium It's a solid. Now do the rest yourself ;)

Answer 9

dave got it all right!
but some % of lanthanum-solid is added

Answer 10

What u plannin to blow up?