Neutron

famously known third law, you will be able to find the total mass. Following the massive calculations, the end result of the total mass is the unseen object (the black hole). If the mass of the unseen object outweighs the mass of a white dwarf or neutron star, it is highly likely labeled a black hole. In the second commonly used method black holes are determined by the visibility of the star and its distance to the black hole. When stars enter the event horizon (also known as “The Schwarzschild…

My chemical element is Sulfur. If you were to be looking at a periodic table, its symbol would be S. Sulfur’s atomic number is 16. Sulfur has 16 protons, 16 electrons, and 16 neutrons. Sulfur’s atomic mass is 32.065 and its mass number is 32. Sulfur comes from the Sanskrit word “Sulvere” and also the latin word “Sulphurium”. Sulfur was discovered in Ancient times and has been mentioned in both the Bible and the Torah. Sulfur is commonly found in meteorites, volcanoes, hot springs, and as…

When the atom bomb was invented by the United States the people believed that it would be a savior to the war that was occurring, but fate would have the bomb be a global phenomenon as the world stood in awe of its catastrophic power. Having such a weapon that would most certainly win the war for your country was an amazing thought, and of course many country’s believed that too, which inevitably led to the cold war. What were to follow was a race to develop these bombs many of the world’s…

At 12:33am EST on 7 December 1972, the final manned lunar mission, Apollo 17, launched from launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center using a Saturn V rocket. Being a J-Series Apollo mission, it lasted 12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes and 59 seconds with Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. The landing site Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area was chosen due to the suspected presence of rocks both older and newer (due to…

To create the nuclear fission the atomic bombs used uranium-235 or plutonium. The nuclear fission split the atoms which caused new neutrons to shoot out. When the bomb is dropped and explodes half of the explosion is blast, thirty-five percent is heat, and fifteen percent is nuclear radiation. These are one of the most deadliest weapons of earth. A test bomb was dropped in the United…

create really dense particles, and when they go supernova at the end of their life, gold can be formed from the amazing pressure and temperatures. Unfortunately, it does not create the matter itself, and it messes with the arrangement of electrons, neutrons and protons instead. We currently believe that all matter originated from the Big Bang, and was destroyed by a near equal amount of antimatter, which would have caused the expansion. Antimatter is also viewed as a possible fuel source that…

article on radioactive waste has stated that “Breeders offer a virtually inexhaustible source of energy…. With breeders, the amount of plutonium stays in principle constant, because the fuel is regenerated.” What this means is that the reactor uses neutrons to split the plutonium, which then creates more nuclear material to use as energy, and produces no waste. In the documentary “Pandora’s Promise” Leonard Koch said “Breeder reactor work by creating heat, and once the heat is created, it turns…

I read an assertion that stated, the existence of helium, lithium, and deuterium in the cosmos was brought into existence from the Big Bang. I was able to have faith in the claim, for the first neutrons created would have likely created elements with low atomic masses - known as Big Bang nucleosynthesis. A second assertion concerning the Big Bang I scanned over, would explain cosmic microwave background radiation. Believing that the universe came…

believe some galaxies as held by black holes. But is that really the case? The short period of growth of the universe started of as the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago. After the Big Bang the universe started to cool of, starting protons and neutrons, hydrogen, helium, lithium and more. Stars, planets, galaxies started to form during the process. According to the European Space Agency's Herschel Telescope have discovered the brightest galaxies say to be the most important. The Herschels…

No one wants another Hiroshima. If nuclear power can be generated easily, then nuclear weapons are not hard to produce either. It is as simple as more than one neutron from each fission causing other fissions to occur so rapidly that an explosion can occur. Countries like the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, China, Israel, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and North Korea all have nuclear weapon capabilities. This…