what state of matter is hydrogen in, in a Hydrogen Bomb--before the blast?

Question

and what size and shape was the Uranuim in the bomb the fell on Japan

Answer 1

It depends on the bomb design. The hydrogen part is usually tritium or, less likely, deuterium; both of which are heavier isotopes of hydrogen.

When either of these two isotopes are smooshed together under intense pressure and heat, they fuse into one or more heavier elements (like helium) but not all the hydrogen masses end up in the heavier elements. And that difference in the masses is where E = Mc^2 releases the energy of a fusion bomb.

There were two A-bomb (not fusion) dropped on Japan. One had a simple physics package consisting of a rod and cylinder of fissionable material. When the rod is shoved into the cylinder, the material goes critical and atoms begin to split under a hail of neutrons.

These splitting atoms release even more neutrons and the so-called chain reaction is begun. Energy is released with each split because the sum of the resulting parts does not equal the mass of the splitting atom. Again, it's that mass difference that invokes good old E = Mc^2.

The "Big Boy" bomb used a different physics package. Instead of a rod and cylinder, the Big Boy had a ball of fissionable material embedded inside a lot of conventional explosive. The reason Big Boy was so big was because of all this conventional explosive. To make the ball of fissionable material go critical and start the requisite chain reaction, the explosive smooshed the fissionable ball into a higher density.

Answer 2

Inside a fission bomb there is an orange size lithium hydride ball. Lithium under neutron bombarding is transformed in tritium (an isotope of hydrogen). In fact the fuel for fusion is tritium and deuterium, and these are in gaseous state. Before the fusion reaction they become plasma. Inside a Tokamak is used a very low pressure mixture of deuterium and tritium witch is heated and confined in plasma state (plasma is the fourth state of matter)

Answer 3

At Hiroshima, a bullet shaped uranium projectile was fired into a larger uranium target, resulting in a sphere of U-235 which then fissioned. At Nagasaki, there were concentric shells of Plutonium that were compressed around a spherical core. So the answer in both cases is "sphere".

Answer 4

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Answer 5

plasma. The triggering fission explosion hasd stripped everything down to a plasma state.

Answer 6

soild