Spliting atoms?
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The short answer to this is that you take unstable atoms and fire particles at them (usually either protons or neutrons). When the particle hits the nucleus of an atom, the nucleus breaks apart into smaller pieces, releasing the particles of that atom and generating energy due to the release of those particles. Then it depends on what you do with those loose particles and energy that can produce other atoms, or a way to generate energy or a more destructive force such as the atomic bomb. To do this however requires a very expensive device called a particle accelerator to fire the particle into the atom with sufficient force to cause it to split into its smaller components.
An atomic bomb only requires two pieces of special uranium that are near critical mass that are collided together to cause the nuclear reation by the chain reaction of splitting atoms.
Well that depends on your definition of "split". You can strip the electrons from atoms which is a form of splitting. Your end product would be a plasma.
But I bet you're referring to the splitting of a nucleus, like in an atomic energy plant or a nuclear weapon. Uranium is used here. But not just normal U which is predominately U238. You want the slightly lighter isotope U235. (0.071%). To make the U235 nucleus split, you bombard it with neutrons. When a neutron hits the U235 nucleus, it cleaves it into two smaller pieces. It also causes two neutrons to be ejected which are in turn used to split even more nuclei. In order to control the amount of heat generated, control rods are used to absorb neutrons. If the control rods are removed and can't be reinstalled in the core, the core will melt.as evidenced in Chernobyl, USSR
assuming your talking about splitting the nuecleus(center of the atom), then that would just produce energy and lighter elemtal byproducts/leftovers
the energy comes from the kenetic energy stored in side the nueclus, some come from the conversion of mass into energy, kenetic energy (aka motion of atoms) calused by sub atoms (leftover atoms after splitting) repelling each other, etc.
note: energy wont be noticeable if it took more energy to spit the atom than the actrual amount of energy produced by the spliting
the lighter elemental byproducts/leftovers is whats left of the original atom but reareanged into other lighter atoms
In the fission reaction, a uranium atom is split by a neutron into a barium and a krypton atom and several neutrons are left to split more U235. Some mass is converted into energy by Einsteins' formula E=mc^2
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