Choose the BEST answer to the following. When energy is released by the process of fusion, the total mass of the material after the event is (a) less. (b) the same. (c) more. (d) zero.
Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fusion is a type of nuclear reaction. In nuclear fusion, two or more than two lighter atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus. During this process, an enormous amount of energy is released. This energy is called nuclear energy. Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the sun and stars.
Fusion Bomb
A fusion bomb is also known as a thermonuclear bomb or hydrogen bomb which releases a large amount of explosive energy during a nuclear chain reaction when the lighter nuclei in it, combine to form heavier nuclei, and a large amount of radiation is released. It is an uncontrolled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction where isotopes of hydrogen combine under very high temperature to form helium. They work on the principle of operation of atomic fusion. The isotopes of Hydrogen are deuterium and tritium, where they combine their masses and have greater mass than the product nuclei, get heated at high temperatures, and releases energy.
Choose the BEST answer to the following.
When energy is released by the process of fusion, the total mass of the material after the event is
(a) less.
(b) the same.
(c) more.
(d) zero.
Nuclear fission is a process in which two lighter nuclei combine to form single heavier nuclei.
The mass of heavier nucleus formed is less than the sum of masses of the combining nuclei. The mass defect is released as energy in accordance with Einstein's mass-energy relation
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