Uranium

Question 1

Atoms are ——, they contain the same number of protons as electrons

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Neutral

Question 2

What is the symbol for the atomic/proton number

Answer 2

Z

Question 3

Mass or nucleon number is represented by the letter?

Answer 3

A

Question 4

🕳 are atoms of the same element that have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons

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Isotopes

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Isotopes of hydrogen

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Tritium, deuterium, protium

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An isotope that is radioactive is called

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Radioisotope of radionuclide

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During 🕳 a neutron collides with a uranium atom and splits it releasing a large amount of energy in the form of heat and radiation

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Nuclear fission

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Having or producing powerful and dangerous energy that comes from the breaking of atoms

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Radioactive

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The act of emitting radiation spontaneously

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Radioactivity

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The process of shedding the radiation is called

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Radioactive decay

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In 1896 🕳 discovered uranium emitted penetrating rays like xrays

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Henri Becquerel

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What is the symbol of radioactivity

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The Becquerel ( BQ)

Question 13

Uranium was discovered in 1789 by who and in what mineral

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Martin Klaproth, pitchblende

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Uranium is used in

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Nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, nuclear submarines

Question 15

3 naturally occurring isotopes of uranium

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U-238, U-235, U-234

Question 16

U-238 can be converted to what

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Plutonium-239

Question 17

Laboratory made Uranium

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U-232, U-233, U-236

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A laboratory used for the separation of fluids, gas, or, liquid based on density.

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Centrifuge

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Involved taking natural uranium and increasing the concentration of u-235 isotope

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Uranium enrichment

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Uranium oxide (U3O8) is commonly referred to as?

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Yellowcake

Question 21

Most sophisticated bomber in WW2

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B-29 superfortress

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Top secret project to make the first atomic bombs

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Manhattan project

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Most of the work of the Manhattan Project was done in

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Los Alamos, New Mexico

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Los Alamos laboratory is also known as

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Project Y

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Father of the atomic bomb and director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos laboratory

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Oversaw all aspects of sci-search, production, security for the invention of the atomic bomb

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Leslie Groves

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Code name of the first detonation that has a nuclear device nicknamed gadget

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Trinity

Question 28

The Trinity test was held where

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New Mexico desert

Question 29

The bombs dropped non Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Little boy and Fat man

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The death toll in Hiroshima was estimated

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140,000

Question 31

Enola Gay is a B-29 superfortress plane who dropped little boy on Hiroshima who drove it?

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Paul Tibbets

Question 32

Estimate bod how many died in Nagasaki

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60-80k

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Which plane dropped Fat Man and who drove it

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Bockscar, Charles Sweeney

Question 34

What was the primary target of Fat man

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Kokura