Do you know how many times you can split an atom?

Question

If you do, then do you get a atom bomb explosion?

Answer 1

you are very crude !

Answer 2

Depends on the atom. Some atoms split into smaller atoms that will then split up spontaneously into even lower weight fragments of the originally split atom. For example:

"When uranium-235 undergoes fission, the average of the fragment mass is about 118, but very few fragments near that average are found. It is much more probable to break up into unequal fragments, and the most probable fragment masses are around mass 95 and 137. Most of these fission fragments are highly unstable (radioactive), and some of them such as cesium-137 and strontium-90 are extremely dangerous when released to the environment. " [See source.]

Other atoms will simply split and that's it. The fragments remain what they first were after the parent atom split. In any case, a split is typically caused by a slow (low energy) neutron that is actually captured by the parent atom. That makes the parent atom unstable; so it splits up to form two or more children fragments. And when the kids are formed, some additional neutrons are typically released from the splitting parent.

A so-called chain reaction is sustained when more and more parent atoms are split by each previous cycle (generation) of splitting atoms. For multiple generations of atom splitting, the atoms have to average emitting more slow neutrons than the number of neutrons that split them. That is, for example, each atom has to average greater than one emitted slow neutron so that more atoms split on the succeeding generation than on the current one.

So, for instance, 1 atom splits and emits two or three slow moving neutrons that split two close by atoms, the two split atoms spawn four to six neutrons that then cause 4 atoms to split and cause more neutrons, which then split 16 atoms, and so on, where 2^N is the number of atoms splitting for each N generation of atoms split.

After just N = 23 generations of splitting, more than 2^23 > 8 million atoms will split, each one releasing energy. Take that two more generations, and we have 2^25 > 330 million atoms splitting. When N = 30 generations, more than a billion atoms, each releasing a bit of energy, are split.

When we reach billions of atoms all splitting at the same time, that's when we have an "atom bomb explosion." That's when all those bits of energy released with each split atom add up to kilo- or mega-tons of equivalent TNT energy.

Answer 3

each atom is split once in an atomic bomb. in the a-bomb, once you get one atom to split it starts off a chain reaction and thus an unimaginable amount of atoms are split causing the BOOM. im a physicist.....haha if you need about 800 pages just ask.

Answer 4

whilst a super atom splits, it differences a number of its mass directly to Kinetic ability. different varieties of ability are interior the style of neutrons, beta debris, etc. The formulation used is E=mc^2 for the substitute in mass and the ensuing substitute in ability. frequently, mankind can basically chop up an atom only as quickly as. The solar makes use of fusion to integrate atoms countless circumstances over. Hydrogen to helium, hydrogen and helium to lithium, etc.

Answer 5

never tried it

Answer 6

dude, ur icon..... it's disturbing.

Answer 7

once, no