Radioactivity

Shale of the Appalachian Basin With various depositional environments and the understanding of sea level change, the Appalachian Basin formed by the collision of tectonic plates and sediment accumulation under the Earth’s surface. The Appalachian Mountains reveal subsidence belts, faulted marine sedimentary rocks and other geologic rocks in these tectonic settings. The Basin exists in the northeastern states of North America. This large rock formation exhibits collisional tectonics with modern…

When searching for nuclear energy’s only element, uranium, it is quite easy to find due to the element’s radioactivity signature. Once found the mining process is almost parallel to that of coal, starting with the open pit method and so forth. The only difference between mining for coal and mining for uranium is uranium is radioactive. How with special safety…

There are many controversy about whether the dropping of the bomb on Bikini Atoll was necessary. There are a lot more evidence that the bombs were not at all necessary. An example of that is that it hurt a lot of lives and sea animals. The other side says it would prepare for future wars. Who is right? The people that say that it is not necessary make more sense as protecting the environment is more important than preparing for war which will tear apart our connections with other countries.…

University of Marburg studying chemistry. After taking his doctorate exam at only age 22 in 1901 and then working as an assistant at the University of Marburg, Hahn moved on from organic chemistry into the field of studying radiochemistry and radioactivity in London with Sir William Ramsay, the British chemist most known for discovering the noble gases. At the University College of London in 1904, Hahn made his first big discovery and contribution by discovering radiothorium, a radioactive…

Marie Salomea Sklodowska, other wise known as Marie Curie. Marie Curie was a french woman who worked in physics and chemistry. Marie is the most famous for her work with radioactivity, and the discovery of Polonium and Radium. Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She is the daughter of Wladyslaw and Bronislava, who were both teachers. (Famous Scientists) Marie was the youngest of five children. As she grew up, she faced many obstacles such as, her family did not have a lot…

His student Marie Curie discovered that only certain chemical elements gave off these rays of energy and named this radioactivity. Although Becquerel called this radioactivity, Curie later coined the term “radiation”. She’d be the first to work with radioactive materials and also later discover other radioactive elements such as thorium, polonium, and radium. In 1901 within months of studying and…

Rontgen didn’t understand how the radioactive rays were produced and neither did anyone until Henri Becquerel was experimenting with uranium salts and discover that the rays were emitting from the salts themselves and was named “radioactivity” by Marie Curie. Radiation is produced by both natural and artificial/man-made sources. Natural sources that would produce radiation in Earth or its atmosphere would be cosmic rays that emit radiation in big rays that reach the Earth from space…

The Manhattan Project was code name for called the atomic bomb includes the large amount uranium and plutonium developed by government during World war ll. Cooperated with British and Canadian scientists were nuclear expert. Over 100,000 scientists and engineers worked on the project and the project cost a total of 2 billion dollars. The first test was done on June 16, 1945 at the Los Alamos laboratory in the New Mexican desert. The gigantic explosion was flash of light and has to visible for…

In 1945, American army attacked the central of Japan which is Tokyo to hit a strike in the Japanese army. They used B-29 which is bomber from America made an air raid on Tokyo because they wanted to destroy Tokyo to occupy Japanese urban area. Twenty thousand people were killed by the air raid, and this attack was called Great Tokyo Air Raid. In addition, a million people became homeless because their houses were burned by air raid, and forty square kilometers of Tokyo were destroyed by the…

Have you ever been watching T.V. and just wondered where the energy that was powering the television was coming from, or how it was made? Well that power source is called nuclear power and many people do not think about nuclear power, or just not pay any attention to nuclear power, but nuclear power is one of the most useful thing to have been discovered. It powers so much. Without nuclear power you would not have electricity to charge Iphones and laptops. With nuclear power we do so much with…