Radioactivity

On August 6, 1945, two atomic bombs were launched and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. According to History.com's article on the "Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", over 120,000 people died instantly including the 11,000 that suffered from blast induced injuries and burns due to radiation. Innocent lives such as senior citizens, animals, families with small children and babies died tragically. 90% of the population in those two cities were wiped out. As of 2017, the United States…

Purpose The purpose of this lab is to determine the sustainability of the two major resources-coal and nuclear-for the production of electricity. The laboratory compares coal, which is the more traditional energy producing resource, to nuclear, which is considered the more modern energy resource. The laboratory demonstrates the amount of material needed, the wastes produced and potential effects from a catastrophe. Introduction According to the United States Department of Energy (2013), coal is…

that the atom could be split, and contributed to the Atomic Theory. He used the gold foil to see how to alpha and beta rays would bounce off off different atoms. Ernest was responsible for a remarkable series of discoveries in the fields of radioactivity and nuclear physics. Alpha and Beta rays set forth the laws of radioactive decay and identified alpha particles (helium nuclei). This would change science forever. Ernest conducted research that…

Introduction During the concluding stages of World War 2, on August 6, 8:15 am, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped by a B-29 bomber, known as ‘Enola Gay’. The bomb was released by parachute and exploded at around 590 metres above the city. About 45,000 people were killed instantly and the final death toll was about 70,000 people because of the radiation precipitated by the explosion. What have I found? Nuclear weapons instantly kill…

Horizontal drilling, also known as, fracking is a method of drilling into Shale to extract gas. Shale gas is abundant in the United States, which could mean energy independence. The amount of natural gas in the United States is equivalent to two amounts of oil in Saudi Arabia's. However, this process raises concerns, health concerns in particular. The luxury of drinking water out of the tap has been taken away from communities where fracking has hit. The economic benefits of fracking do not…

One of the most important scientific discoveries is that of the atom. The Atom is the smallest unit of matter. “Atoms are mostly empty space” (OI/ https://www.thoughtco.com/interesting-facts-about-atoms-603817). It makes up all the four elements. “There are over 100 different kinds of atoms ”(OI/https://www.thoughtco.com/interesting-facts-about-atoms-603817).Over time the theories about the atom have changed a lot, moving from simple to complex. Before 1900, scientists made several…

Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Spring Grove, New Zealand. He was the fourth child out of twelve children, as well as the second son in the family. Ernest’s father struggled with education and supporting the family, while Ernest’s mother, a schoolteacher, pushed him to obtain an education. During Rutherford’s early life, he did household and farm work. His family referred to him as “Ern.” Due to lack of financial funds in the Rutherford family, Ernest believed that he had to…

This essay going to be about an atom. Atom is always around us all the time and ever object are made out of an atom. We, humans, are also made of the atom. Knowing about the structure and what it really is a very important thing to learn as a student. In order to learn about an atom, we will have to understand about Democritus first. So who is Democritus? Democritus is the first human to ever come up with the first atomic theory. Democritus was born in Greece around 460BC. He has a life spend…

There is a man who is stuck in a wall as if he was frozen in the wall or in time. The man once was a young boy with the name Alex, and Alex was a child of two, he had a sister named Haven, and Haven was five years old. Haven and Alex were both the same age, they both shared many of the same things like personalities and favorites like sports and toys, and many more. Alex and Haven once were on a trip with their mom named Tracy who was a Dentist and their father Harry who was a Doctor, so while…

Onto the actual title of the poem, “Power.” Is power a force for good? Can it be possible, or is it corrupt by nature? Whether power is good or not depends on who holds it. As Rich illustrates in her poem, power can be good for others but could be damaging to oneself. Power, however, cannot be possessed–but instead it can posses. With the words of Michel Foucault to back this up, power is not a possession, rather, it is the relationship between entities that determines knowledge and discourse to…