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Mercury serves up a nuclear surprise - The discovery of a new type of fission turns a...
Nature News ^
| 1 December 2010
| Eugenie Samuel Reich
Posted on 12/04/2010 10:40:33 AM PST by neverdem
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posted on
12/04/2010 10:40:38 AM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
"a new type of fission"
New? I'm betting it's been around for billions of years.
To: neverdem
Something very fishy about this article. U-235 does NOT asymmetrically fission as evident from the fission decay daughters spectrum, often referred to as the Dolly Parton graph. It s clearly bimodal with respect to periodic number and isotopic mass.
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posted on
12/04/2010 10:57:02 AM PST
by
fuente
To: circlecity
The reason CFL bulbs contain mercury is because each CFL bulb is a miniature nuclear reactor.
(kidding)
To: neverdem
So...our new mandated light bulbs will be blowing up on us?
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:00:10 AM PST
by
ryderann
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:03:54 AM PST
by
ColoCdn
(Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
To: neverdem
Andreyev and his colleagues started with a beam of thallium-180. This mostly decayed by capturing an electron, turning one of its 81 protons into a neutron to form mercury-180, which then performed the... Well no wonder! This ain't real mercury. It's that cheap Swiss stuff, just a little better quality than the made in China brand.
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:10:15 AM PST
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: circlecity
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:11:38 AM PST
by
jmcenanly
( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
To: neverdem
Alpha decay is highly asymmetric, but isn’t called fission. Even though it’s a nucleus splitting into two.
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:12:59 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: neverdem
I think fishing not fission goin’ on he’ah.
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:13:50 AM PST
by
bvw
To: neverdem
They should try the experiment without observing it and see what happens.
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:36:06 AM PST
by
quintr
To: neverdem
What is the significance of this?
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:39:09 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back.)
To: mikeandike
They should try the experiment without observing it and see what happens. Correct. Observation is never passive. It always affects outcome. Quantifying observation can only be done by comparison with nonobservation. In a nonobservation environment the outcome cannot be known since it is unobserved. More than a theoretical problem the observer determines the reaction.
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posted on
12/04/2010 11:45:28 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(The American Revolution is just as unpopular with statists today as it was at our founding.)
To: jmcenanly
"It is new to us."
As is everything.
Whatever will be
has already been done.
and there is nothing new
under the sun.
To: neverdem; decimon
Krypton-80's-Hits-by-Jor-El-and-the-Ruthenium-100-Orchestra ping.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
12/04/2010 12:20:58 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
To: neverdem
Airport Repairman carries CFL light bulb thru TSA scanner, blows himself up
To: The Comedian
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posted on
12/04/2010 12:56:49 PM PST
by
decimon
To: neverdem
As my friend Milo Price said, “Sometime things just don’t happen the way you think they will”.
Profound, truly profound.
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posted on
12/04/2010 1:12:03 PM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: The Comedian
There's a ping list for THAT??!!
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posted on
12/04/2010 1:13:26 PM PST
by
starlifter
(Pullum sapit)
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