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Asked by jakehopkins2k10 to Hywel, Joseph, Patience, Poonam, Rachael on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
Question: What 2 chemicals mixed together would cause the biggest explosion?
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Joseph Cook answered on 15 Jun 2010:
Nuclear weapons probably cause the biggest explosions, so something like uranium with something else to collide with it and break it down.
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Poonam Kaushik answered on 15 Jun 2010:
atomic hydrogen plus atomic hydrogen to fuse together to form helium will be biggest explosion!
H1 + H1 ————He2 (Explosion)
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Dr Hywel Jones answered on 15 Jun 2010:
Uranium plus some more Uranium, that’s the basis for a nuclear fission explosion.
And that is a big bang.
Comments
missberney commented on :
So you belive in the big bang then? DO ALL scientists :L
Poonam commented on :
yes dear! i believe in it………….
lauren21294 commented on :
how does hydrogen form helium if they are both elements?
Joseph commented on :
Heavier elements can be formed from lighter ones by a process called fusion. The nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus, and in the case of hydrogen nuclei combining to form helium this results in energy being released, but it requires energy first to be put in to push the hydrogen nuclei together because they have the same charge. This happens naurally in stars, but it’s also possible to do it on earth under the right conditions.
Poonam commented on :
this reaction is happening in our sun and all stars called Fusion reaction. Here in presence of high energy two nucleus of each hydrogen (i.e. proton within nucleus) fuses together and gives u helium which is having now 2 protons in nucleus plus loads of energy!
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/COMPLETE/learn/fusion/reaction.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/COMPLETE/learn/fusion/fusion.html&usg=__ABxyvmP6JTzkeV02clGmi0pv7E4=&h=363&w=457&sz=18&hl=en&start=6&sig2=Lkw8VgIbE60cLYBF0Ris2A&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=6opwhIr9Mu0jHM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfusion%2Breaction%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=nqAiTMe2BIyC_AbgzujwBA