which would be a more powerful "H" bomb, using basic H or deuterium?
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The method that i know of was to fuse Hydrogen, Deuterium, and Tritium to form a Helium-4 atom.  This is called the "DT" reaction.  I'm not exactly sure about it but i think that using Hydrogen-1 would create an extremely unstable isotope of Helium-2.  When i talked to a physics professor some years back he said the half life of the majority of the helium isotopes was pretty short.
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Hydrogen.  To be more specific, the H1 isotope.  The deuterium or H2 atom is only one in eight thousand of all hydrogen atoms.\nThe second most common element, helium, is less than 10%.  All others together are a minor component, no matter how important to us.
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Look at the periodic table. Number 1 hydrogen has 1 proton and 1 electron. Number 2 helium has 2 protons, 2 electrons and 2 neutrons.
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If you could get one down there, it would likely melt before detonation. If you could solve that problem, then the result MIGHT depend on the yield of the weapon... but it would have to be a few million times stronger than today's strongest weapons, since the immense molten iron core of the earth handles pressures and forces far in excess of anything we will ever experience, and probably stronger than anything we could ever create in the next five thousand years. Nukes are only scary for fragile surface creatures in a relatively tiny area, not for fiery iron spheres that are the size of the moon.
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One proton, it is hydrogen.  The extra mass comes from a neutron.  This isotope is called deuterium.
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Probably the B83 nuclear weapon which is about 1.2Mt.\n\nThe most powerful weapon the US has developed was the Mk-41 which is a 25Mt bomb, nearly 2000 times as large as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  The Mk-41 has been retired for some time.\n\nThe most powerful weapon system currently deployed would be the Ohio class submarines which can carry 24 Trident II SLBMs, each capable of delivering up to 3.4Mt.
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it was 2 atomic bombs that were used to change the attitudes of the japanese government.a hydrogen bomb is much more powerful and back then they had no way of transporting that kind of power.the germans had a scientist who did come up with the idea and he came to america to share his knowledge of the atomic bomb,Albert Einstein.and if atomic were used today in a war,it would be as effective today as it was back then.
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A normal Hydrogen atom has one proton and one electron.  If you strip away the electron, you are left with the Hydrogen +1 ion, which is the same thing as a proton.\n\nThere are two other Hydrogen isotopes (much MUCH less common than Hydrogen-1), there are Hydrogen-2 (1 proton, 1 neutron, 1 electron), and Hydrogen-3 (1 proton, 2 neutron, 1 electron).\nIf you were to strip away their electrons, they would still be the a Hydrogen +1 ion, but would be heavier since they have an extra 1 or two neutrons.
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It is lyophillic sol.\nHydrogen bomb is based on fusion. but to start the fusion the temp required is in millions. So to acquire that temp the fusion is triggered by atom bomb(fission)
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Hydrogen Bombs are the most powerful type. They are powered by fusion instead of fission. Castle Bravo was the biggest bomb ever detonated by Western Powers. The test was 1st March 1954 at Bikini Atoll. It yielded 15 megatons
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There is no difference...some people say nuke because that was the term used in the 1960's...there is a difference between atom bombs and hydrogen bombs...atom bombs use uranium as the "fuel" (catalyst), it being a very "heavy" atom (atomical weight) while the hydrogen bomb as the name implies uses hydrogen as its catalyst which is very light.
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Good. Tritium has 2 neutrons and 1 proton where-as deuterium has one proton and one neutron. When they fuse they form Helium-4 which has 2 neutrons and 2 protons. This reaction releases one neutron and heat (as it's an exothermic reaction). Imagine tons of tritium and deuterium fusing, that's a lot of heat isn't it? It's the heat that does the damage. But it's hard to set it off. You'll need a small fission bomb to set off the fusion reaction.
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lithium-6 + neutron ------> helium-4 +  hydrogen-3\n\nC
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Well, a nuclear bomb means all bombs that perform a nuclear reaction. These nuclear bombs are also called thermonuclear weapons. An atomic bomb is a kind of nuclear bomb. Atomic bombs do nuclear fission, while more powerful hydrogen bombs do nuclear fusion. Hydrogen bombs can be 1000 times more powerful than atomic bombs.\n\nA modern hydrogen fusion bomb can vaporize all the water in the San Francisco Bay, instantly.\n\nEDIT: dubz has it backwards. Atomic bombs are fission bombs, nuclear bombs are all thermonuclear weapons, and hydrogen bombs are fusion bombs.\n\nPPS: usarocketman is mixing up thermonuclear weapons and hydrogen bombs. Thermonuclear weapons just means all of those type of bombs. Hydrogen bombs are a type of thermonuclear weapon, one that does fusion.
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Franpal is correct, hydrogen and oxygen.  If you're thinking of a D, it may be 'heavy water', which has Deuterium rather than hydrogen (an isotope of hydrogen).
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fusion is when two elementary particles collide and combine or fuse to make -- even temporarily -- a new particle. In the graphic below, a form of the hydrogen nucleus -- Tritium -- collides with another form of the hydrogen nucleus -- Deuterium -- to form a new particle. (Deuterium and Tritium are isotopes of hydrogen -- a form of water.) The fused particle is not stable, and quickly decays via the split decay mode into a neutron -- moving very fast, i.e., "hot" -- and a helium neucleus -- also know as an "alpha" particle and energy.\nThe radioactive by-products from fission are undeniably bad. They last for tens of thousands of years and can cause untold problems, the worst of which is through terrosists using the waste products for weapons. The fast neutron from fusion can potentially interact with metals a cause them to become radioactive. This process can be minimized by have neutron shielding between the fusion burn and any metals in the reactor. However, the radioactive metals produced -- and any ash from the fusion burn itself -- is a low-level radioactivity that is not considered dangerous, with half-lives in the tens of years. There is no comparison -- radioactive waste from fission is very dangerous, radioactive waste from fusion is not very dangerous.\nIt is hard for most people to understand where this energy comes from, and how much it is. Most people have heard of Einstein's famous equation:\n\nE = mc2\n\nWhen the fusion reactions listed above occur, a small amount of mass disappears. The small amount of mass is converted into a large amount of energy. How much is large? A typical chemical reaction in which hydrogen and oxygen combine to produce water, releases about 1 eV of energy. The fusion process typically releases 1,000,000 times as much energy. Historically, when people talk about the benefits of nuclear fusion, they refer to how much fuel must be burned to equal to each other.\nNuclear fusion takes water, burns it, releases helium (and a small amount of radiation in the form of neutrons), and converts the missing mass into massive amounts of energy.
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A weapon bomb is weapon which explodes on a target or on a desired time or distance.\n\nA nuclear bomb is a bomb which explodes as a result of a nuclear reaction\n\nThere are various types of nuclear bombs:\nAtom Bomb: The bomb in which nuclei of heavy radioactive substances are broken by bobmardment of neutrons.\n\nHydrogen Bomb: The bomb in which Hydrogen atoms are forced to merge into one another to form Helium. \n\nNeutron Bomb: A type of Atom Bomb in which disintigration of nuclei is carried under controlled conditions.