There
is not a lot of things that are so powerful
even
owners are genuinely afraid to use.
Nuclear
bombs are one of those things.
Nuclear or Atom booms are as name
suggest
are
a type of bomb which uses energy of atoms
as
it’s fuel.
But
how exactly they work .
Nuclear
or atom bombs work by splitting atoms
in
a process called nuclear fission. An atom is a
collection
of three things Electron, Proton and
Neutron. The proton and neutron is makes an
atom’s
centre know as Nucleus.
If you pay attention.
The
word Nuclear comes from Nucleus why well
you
going to find out.
The
nucleus of an atom is very small thus it is
very
strong and nearly impossible to split but an
atom’s
nucleus will gets weaker when it
becomes
larger. This is where URENIUM comes in
the
picture because of its higher atomic mass.
Now
we have uranium and we already have. Neutron
let’s make an atomic bomb. NO its not
simple
as it seems. You see natural Uranium
have
only 0.7% of useful uranium. So what’s the
big
dell just purify it you may ask. But purification
of
Uranium is NO easy job. Under MANHATTAN
project
in which AMERICA first make atomic
bomb
it took 80% of Manhattan project’s
budget
just to make some useful uranium.
Now
you have to start something called a chain reaction. What we do is we take a
lot of Neutrons and through it on the Uranium atom this causes Uranium atom to
split apart releasing huge amount of energy but here is the question why?
Because
of E=MC^2
The
famous equation that tell us relationship between mass and energy .If One Gram of mass converted into energy is
equal to 900000000000000000000.0 ergs or 9*10^20 ergs.
Now
you can understand that even a little mass can change into a huge amount of
energy.
But
it had to do with atom bomb. Well one Uranium atom when it brakes then The
combine mass of two part is less then the original mass. That a little bit mass
create huge energy amount of energy and more Neutrons causing more atoms to
split that create more Which in turn causes more atoms to split creating a
chain reaction thus creating a very very very big
explosion. How powerful if you may ask well the MASRUM
CLOUD of little boy is 370 M. high and
have surface temperature of 6000 degree Celsius
that’s hotter that the surface temperature of sun.
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