Is there any type of element/material that will withstand the heat and pressure of a nuclear bomb? Like any type of alloy?
2007-03-31 17:21:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
No, the temperature at the core of the explosion will turn any substance on earth to a plasma. Outside of the core at some distance, whatever is there will be molten - sand in the desert form quartz glass.
2007-03-31 17:26:06 · answer #1 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. A nuclear bomb generates temperatures of 100 million degrees. All substances vaporize at less than ten thousand degrees.
2007-03-31 17:51:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, nothing that we have will be any help from a direct hit from a nuclear bomb, and if there was, what good would it be against a hydrogen bomb?
2007-03-31 17:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by DeepBlue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up close? Reinforced concrete apparently seems to do fine.
Or, as fine as you can expect considering it's being nuked.
http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/bikini/bikini5.htm
2007-03-31 17:25:44 · answer #4 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reinforced concrete actually does pretty well in the outter reaches. but you're talking ground zero? this first hundred yards? most likely not.
2007-03-31 17:25:18 · answer #5 · answered by Archangel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah alot of reinforced concrete and lead sheets foer radiation
2007-04-02 03:52:59 · answer #6 · answered by koki83 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋