2007-01-23 21:45:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
A hydrogen bomb is a device that fuses hydrogen (deuterium) nuclei into helium nuclei. The ground-state energy of the resultant helium nucleus is less per nucleon than the equivalent ground-state energy per nucleon for hydrogen. Conservation of energy requires that this change in energy go somewhere and it is manifested as an increase in the kinetic energy of the resultant atoms. This is the explosion.
So, the "power" of the hydrogen bomb is a result of the reduction of the ground-state energy of the "reactant" nucleons. To make a more powerful bomb, one needs to implement a device that has an even greater reduction of nucleon ground state energy. This could be possible by fusing hydrogen into even higher atomic number atoms. Consider a nuclear reaction that fuses 8-deuterium atoms into a single oxygen atom. This would release 12.6 percent more energy per nucleon than fusing those 8-deuterium atoms into 4 helium atoms so a bomb made using this reaction would be more powerful than the current hydrogen bomb-- but it has not been implemented, yet.
2007-01-24 01:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by Dr.T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes nuclear bomb is much powerful that hydrogen bomb. well it is based on nuclear reaction. when we bombard a neutron on uranium 235 then that neutron enters in the nucleus of uranium 235 which causes unstability and here that uranium 235 devide into two uranium 235 with the release of 3 neutron. these 3 neutons cause the further reaction (forms chain reaction) and leads to nuclear reaction and hence prove very destructive. take the example of the bomb dropped in Hiroshima - Nagasaki.
2007-01-24 06:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by Drake parker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know about neutron bomb but I am not sure where it is more powerful than hydrogen bomb, because it destroy only human beings without damaging other material things
2007-01-24 05:59:25 · answer #3 · answered by nanu T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there is no bomb powerfull than hydrogen because in hydrogen bomb fission and fussion occurs simultaneously
2007-01-26 07:30:03 · answer #4 · answered by akhil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give a call to the Americans and ask them
2007-01-24 06:03:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck yes to the fausto!!! lol
2007-01-24 05:54:17 · answer #6 · answered by Reflective Deception 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a niclear fusion reaction but yet not tried on our planet.......
2007-01-24 11:33:52 · answer #7 · answered by afk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you speak japanese? give them a call and ask them...
Drake Parker's wits supports my answer
2007-01-24 05:51:09 · answer #8 · answered by Fausto 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋