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  2. Discovery of nuclear fission - Wikipedia

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    It took three years for them to produce a tenth of a gram of radium chloride, and they never did manage to isolate polonium. [7] In 1898, Ernest Rutherford noted that thorium gave off a radioactive gas. In examining the radiation, he classified Becquerel radiation into two types, which he called α (alpha) and β (beta) radiation. [8]

  3. Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics - Wikipedia

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    The two discovering parties independently assign the discovered meson two different symbols, J and ψ; thus, it becomes formally known as the J/ψ meson. The discovery finally convinces the physics community of the quark model's validity. 1974 Robert J. Buenker and Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff introduce the multireference configuration interaction method.

  4. Nuclear fission - Wikipedia

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    A visual representation of an induced nuclear fission event where a slow-moving neutron is absorbed by the nucleus of a uranium-235 atom, which fissions into two fast-moving lighter elements (fission products) and additional neutrons. Most of the energy released is in the form of the kinetic velocities of the fission products and the neutrons.

  5. Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex - AOL

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    Why saying who was first to split the atom is almost as hard as mastering ... when he broke a nucleus into two or more smaller parts. ... repeated his experiments over the next four years and by ...

  6. New Zealanders upset after Trump falsely claims US split the ...

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    The atom was fully split in a controlled manner in 1932 by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision.

  7. Trump wrongly claims Manchester's atom split feat - AOL

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    Rutherford later oversaw a team at Cambridge University which successfully broke atoms into two parts in 1932. "There are various different developments which are considered to be splitting the ...

  8. Atom - Wikipedia

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    When an atom is in an external magnetic field, spectral lines become split into three or more components; a phenomenon called the Zeeman effect. This is caused by the interaction of the magnetic field with the magnetic moment of the atom and its electrons.

  9. Nuclear weapon design - Wikipedia

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    The uranium-235 nucleus can split in many ways, provided the atomic numbers add up to 92 and the mass numbers add up to 236 (uranium-235 plus the neutron that caused the split). The following equation shows one possible split, namely into strontium-95 (95 Sr), xenon-139 (139 Xe), and two neutrons (n), plus energy: [7]