Isotope

itself is much more common than uranium as well as most naturally-occurring thorium is actually the very isotope which is needed for nuclear power generation. Uranium, on the other hand, is only about as common as platinum as well as only about 3-5% of naturally-occurring uranium can be used directly to produce energy because the most common form of the element, U-238, is the incorrect isotope. Thorium is also estimated to produce about 3-4 times more power than a sample of uranium of the same…

Uranium is the element that I chose to write about. Uranium is a element that is a naturally radioactive element that comes in a silverish metal when it’s pure. Uranium quickly oxidizes in air and it can be used to color glass that glows greenish - yellow under a blacklight. Uranium is one of the key ingredients in atomic bombs. Only 1.38% of the uranium in the bomb “Little Boy” detonated over Hiroshima underwent fission and there was 140 pounds of Uranium in total. Uranium is an element that…

number is 54. Xenon’s atomic mass is 131.293 grams. Its boiling point is -107 degrees Celsius, while its freezing point is -112 degrees Celsius. The density of Xenon at 20 degrees Celsius is 0.005887 grams per cubic centimeter. Xenon has 21 isotopes Xenon is described as being completely colorless and odorless, however when excited by electrical discharge Xenon will emit a blue Now that all the basic facts and physical properties of Xenon have been introduced and explained, we will…

Dear Mr. Ban, I am formally writing this letter to ask for your intercession in the grave matter that has been threatening our world since Enrico Fermi successfully created the first nuclear reactor, which later on made way for the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Currently, nine countries are in possession of nuclear weapons. This is enough nuclear capability to wipe out the human race completely. This is what is worrisome. During the Cold War, we saw a considerable increase of nuclear armament in…

but like the accident in Japan, it could have many dangerous factors if accidents were to occur. For example, uranium is what fuels nuclear power plants, if an accident were to occur and the uranium were to leak out, people exposed to the radiation isotope could have short term and long term effects due to the exposure.…

TIME Magazine named the PET scan the medical invention of the year in 2000, and Dr. David Townsend and Dr. Ronald Nutt are credited as the individuals behind the paramount device. A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is a nuclear medicine imaging test that aids in revealing how well a human’s organs and tissues are functioning; the scan can measure an individual’s oxygen use, glucose metabolism, blood flow and much more. The significance of this function is monumental as it essentially…

The atomic weight of an element is found on the periodic table. The atomic weight of an element is determined by taking the masses of the isotopes and the natural abundance of the isotope and multiplying. One mole of a compound equals the molecular weight. The molecular weight of is 18.02 amu or g/mol. Hydrogen has an atomic mass of 1.01 amu or g/mol and since there are two atoms of hydrogen in water, the atomic…

In the spring of 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the true structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) utilizing theoretical chemistry and borrowed X-ray crystallography images. They postulated that the structure of DNA contained two helical chains that run in opposite directions of one another. They also stated, in contrast to Linus Pauling’s structure, that due to the repulsive forces between the negatively charged phosphate groups the nitrogenous bases would be located on the…

Phosphorus was discovered by the German alchemist Hennig Brandt, in 1669. In a surely arduous process, Brandt heated and processed 50 to 60 buckets, per experiment, of urine until he isolated a substance he named ‘light-bearer’ or phosphorus. Each of these experiments could take two weeks. He would let these buckets of urine stand until they ‘bred worms’. Brandt would then boil the urine with sand, and this is how he distilled elemental phosphorus. This discovery is also notable, aside from…

Atomic Bomb Atomic bombs are by far the most potent and dangerous weapons in all of history. They have the potential to destroy the world through various factors like nuclear fallout and human extinction. This was made evident through the complete annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after America dropped the first two atomic bombs. The cities became uninhabitable and the citizens became plagued with mutations. This occurred in 1945, and now atomic bombs have become more advanced and…