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  • Thumbnail for Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129...
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    Nuclear weapon (redirect from Atomic bomb)
    from relatively small amounts of matter. The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of...
    114 KB (12,992 words) - 23:06, 22 April 2024
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    across the US, the UK, and Canada. The project resulted in two types of atomic bombs, developed concurrently during the war: a relatively simple gun-type...
    176 KB (21,493 words) - 03:35, 5 May 2024
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    Alamos Laboratory during World War II and is often called the "father of the atomic bomb". Born in New York City, Oppenheimer earned a bachelor of arts degree...
    169 KB (18,865 words) - 19:27, 2 May 2024
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    Periodic table (redirect from Atomic table)
    law, which states that when the elements are arranged in order of their atomic numbers an approximate recurrence of their properties is evident. The table...
    251 KB (27,162 words) - 22:29, 4 May 2024
  • the nuclei of their atoms, known as the element's atomic number. For example, oxygen has an atomic number of 8, meaning that each oxygen atom has 8 protons...
    76 KB (9,881 words) - 18:50, 12 April 2024
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    Atom (redirect from Atomic chemical)
    lowest mass) has an atomic weight of 1.007825 Da. The value of this number is called the atomic mass. A given atom has an atomic mass approximately equal...
    121 KB (12,411 words) - 04:13, 6 May 2024
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    The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus. For ordinary nuclei composed of...
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    Molar mass (redirect from Gram atomic mass)
    of isotopes. Most commonly, the molar mass is computed from the standard atomic weights and is thus a terrestrial average and a function of the relative...
    18 KB (2,796 words) - 02:42, 1 May 2024
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    species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element. They have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic...
    47 KB (5,822 words) - 00:49, 3 May 2024
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    Oppenheimer's atomic bomb explosion". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 6, 2023. Alperovitz, Gar (1996). The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. New York:...
    108 KB (12,178 words) - 23:58, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of states with nuclear weapons
    dismantled, not destroyed. It is also noteworthy that since the dawn of the Atomic Age, the delivery methods of most states with nuclear weapons have evolved—with...
    96 KB (8,416 words) - 16:30, 5 May 2024
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    Spectroscopy (redirect from Atomic spectra)
    structure and electronic structure of matter to be investigated at the atomic, molecular and macro scale, and over astronomical distances. Historically...
    42 KB (4,648 words) - 20:42, 8 April 2024
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    with masses of approximately one atomic mass unit, are jointly referred to as "nucleons" (particles present in atomic nuclei). One or more protons are...
    65 KB (6,829 words) - 17:53, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for International Atomic Energy Agency
    York Geneva Seibersdorf Monaco Toronto Tokyo Trieste The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to...
    51 KB (5,122 words) - 02:27, 23 April 2024
  • Dalton (unit) (redirect from Atomic Unit)
    The dalton or unified atomic mass unit (symbols: Da or u) is a non-SI unit of mass defined as 1/12 of the mass of an unbound neutral atom of carbon-12...
    34 KB (3,680 words) - 19:08, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atomic nucleus
    The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based...
    34 KB (3,994 words) - 07:45, 8 April 2024
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    two down quarks and one up quark. These commonly bind together into an atomic nucleus, e.g. a helium-4 nucleus is composed of two protons and two neutrons...
    33 KB (3,133 words) - 11:51, 19 April 2024
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    Gas (redirect from Atomic Gas)
    degenerative quantum gases which are gaining increasing attention. High-density atomic gases super-cooled to very low temperatures are classified by their statistical...
    49 KB (6,358 words) - 01:17, 19 April 2024
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    Hiroshima (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    at 8:15 a.m., when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the city. Most of Hiroshima was destroyed, and by the...
    63 KB (5,148 words) - 05:00, 2 May 2024
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