To: Steely Tom; fso301
I’m given to understand that German graphite contains a wee bit, just a whisper, of boron.
Boron sops up neutrons, and those missing neutrons skewed the data just enough to convince the German scientists that a deliverable bomb was impossible.
6 posted on
05/01/2019 6:14:03 PM PDT by
null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
To: null and void
Almost any graphite does and it doesn’t take much to screw it up for this purpose. It took an entirely new process to make graphite for the pile.
8 posted on
05/01/2019 6:18:46 PM PDT by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
To: null and void
Boron sops up neutrons, and those missing neutrons skewed the data just enough to convince the German scientists that a deliverable bomb was impossible. File under "things that make one say 'hmm...'"
9 posted on
05/01/2019 6:25:52 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
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