Fission and Fusion

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• How can fission and fusion release energy?
• How can nuclear fission be used to generate electricity?
• How can nuclear reaction lead to a chain reaction?
• How can nuclear fission produce energy?
• How can nuclear fusion be controlled?
• How do fission reactions release energy?
• How do nuclear fusion and fission differ?
• How does nuclear fission work with uranium?
• How does nuclear fusion produce new elements?
• What causes nuclear fission?
• What causes nuclear fusion?
• Why is nuclear fission considered nonrenewable energy?
• What is nuclear fusion?
• How can matter be converted into energy?
• What isotopes are used in nuclear power?
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• What is an example of a fission practice problem?
• What is fusion?
• How are fusion and fission similar?
• How does nuclear fission create energy?
• How can fission and fusion be used?
• Which produces more energy, nuclear fission or nuclear fusion?
• Is the source of the sun's energy nuclear fusion or nuclear fission?
• What happens to the nucleus in a fission reaction?
• Is fission a chain reaction?
• Why is fission easier than fusion?
• How is the fission of a uranium-235 nucleus induced?
• Can an unstable nucleus increase it's nuclear mass by fission?
• In a nuclear fission reaction, which has more mass, the initial uranium atom or the sum of its products?
• What are the most common fission products of uranium 238?
• Why is fusion exothermic?
• What are all the possible products of a reaction where uranium 235 undergoes nuclear fission?
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• How can two nuclei fuse together?
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• What happens when hydrogen nuclei fuse into helium nuclei?
• The sun emits energy by converting hydrogen into helium. What is this process called?
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• What is the environmental impact of a nuclear-powered electrical generator versus a coal-fired electrical generator?
• What is a fusion reaction?
• In a fission reaction of U-235, there was a release of #9.20 x 10^11#11 kJ of energy. What amount of mass in kilograms would have been lost?
• The nucleus of a large atom splits and two smaller atoms are formed. Energy is released in the process. What is the name of this process?
• In nuclear fusion, two atoms of hydrogen are compressed to make one atom of what?
• The diagram shows an atom of uranium-235 being split into several pieces. What is the name the process shown in the diagram? What is the name of the particles labelled X?
• Does nuclear fission have a high or low activation point?
• Is the heat of fusion endothermic?
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• How do fusion reactions release energy?
• What the first nucleus hit with to initiate the fission reaction? is?
• What do we mean by a 'chain reaction' when describing nuclear fission reactions?
• The heat of fusion for #Al# is #125# #Jg^-1#. How do you calculate the molar heat of fusion for #Al#?
• The heat of fusion of water is 336 J/g. What is the molar heat of fusion (j/mol) of water?
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• For the fission reaction #2""_(1)^(2) "H" -> ""_(1)^(3) "H" + ""_(1)^(1) "H"#, where the isotopic masses are #"2.01410 amu"#, #"3.01605 amu"#, and #"1.00782 amu"# respectively, what is the change in energy for this reaction in #"J/mol"#?
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