NEUTRONS

Meaning of NEUTRONS in English

Uncharged building blocks of an atom that play a part in radio-activity. They can be found in the nucleus.

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NUCLEOSYNTHESIS — Production on a cosmic scale of all the chemical element s from one or perhaps two simple types of atomic …
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NEUTRON — One of the constituent particles of every atomic nucleus except ordinary hydrogen. Discovered in 1932 by James Chadwick (1891–1974), it …
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URANIUM — (U), radioactive chemical element of the actinide series in Group IIIb of the periodic table, atomic number 92. It is …
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THERMONUCLEAR BOMB — also called Hydrogen Bomb, or H-bomb, weapon whose enormous explosive power results from an uncontrolled, self-sustaining chain reaction in which …
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THERMAL NEUTRON — any free neutron (one that is not bound within an atomic nucleus) that has an average energy of motion (kinetic …
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SUBATOMIC PARTICLE — also called elementary particle, any of various self-contained units of matter or energy. More than 200 subatomic particles have been …
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RADIATION — either the process by which energy is emitted from a source and propagated through the surrounding medium or the energy …
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NUCLIDE — also called nuclear species, species of atom as characterized by the number of protons, the number of neutrons, and the …
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NUCLEAR REACTOR — any of a class of devices that can initiate and control a self-sustaining series of nuclear fissions. In the fission …
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NUCLEAR FISSION — Sequence of events in the fission of a uranium nucleus by a neutron. Sequence of events in the fission of …
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NEUTRON OPTICS — branch of physics dealing with the wave behaviour of neutrons, the electrically neutral subatomic particles that are present in all …
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NEUTRON — one of the constituent particles of every atomic nucleus except ordinary hydrogen; it has no electrical charge and its mass …
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MIRROR NUCLEUS — atomic nucleus that contains a number of protons and a number of neutrons that are mutually interchanged in comparison with …
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ISOTOPE — one of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and position in …
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FISSION PRODUCT — in physics, any of the lighter atomic nuclei formed by splitting heavier nuclei (nuclear fission), including both the primary nuclei …
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CROSS SECTION — in nuclear physics, probability that a given atomic nucleus will exhibit a specific reaction (for example, absorption, scattering, or fission) …
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CHEMICAL ELEMENT — also called element, any substance that cannot be decomposed into simpler substances by ordinary chemical processes. Elements are the fundamental …
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CHAIN REACTION — in chemistry and physics, process yielding products that initiate further processes of the same kind, a self-sustaining sequence. Examples from …
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BETA DECAY — any of three processes of radioactive disintegration by which some unstable atomic nuclei spontaneously dissipate excess energy and undergo a …
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ATOMIC BOMB — also called atom bomb, weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, …
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ATOM — smallest unit into which matter can be divided without the release of electrically charged particles. It also is the smallest …
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BROCKHOUSE, BERTRAM N. — born July 15, 1918, Lethbridge, Alta., Canada in full Bertram Neville Brockhouse Canadian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for …
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NEUTRON — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a neutron bomb (= that kills people but does not damage buildings much ) neutron …
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NEUTRON — n. One of the constituent particles of every atomic nucleus except ordinary hydrogen. Discovered in 1932 by James Chadwick (18911974), …
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NEUTRON CHAIN REACTION — A process in which some of the neutrons released in one fission event cause other fissions to occur. There are …
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CHAIN REACTION — A reaction that initiates its own repetition. In a fission chain reaction, a fissionable nucleus absorbs a neutron and fissions …
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MODERATION — сущ. 1) смягчение 2) умеренность; сдержанность He is sensible that moderation is better than total abstinence. ≈ Он чувствует, что …
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MODERATION — сущ. 1) смягчение 2) умеренность; сдержанность He is sensible that moderation is better than total abstinence. ≈ Он чувствует, что …
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