How do you build a machine to split atoms?
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try this type onto note pad Q33NY then change the size of the font to 40 and change the font to wingdings \nQ33NY is the flight # for the first plane to hit the towers on 911
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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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Here's one way.  I built something like this when I was 11.\n\nI dont need to say the obvious about not cutting off your fingers, poking your eyes out, or gluing your hands to the table do I?\n\nie I'm assuming you're capable of doing the below safely.\n\nyou need:\n\n2 big wheels\n1 smaller wheel (you can always make wheels from cardboard and balsa)\nThe biggest propeller thats fits.\nelectric motor\nlantern battery (big square thing with springs on the top)\nSome 1/8" thick balsa sheet.\nsome dowel which fits in the wheel.\nwire\nA wide necked plastic drinks bottle - Sunny D maybe?\nsticky tape \nhot melt glue \nlong drawing pins/nails\n2 x 10-20 ml syringes and a length of narrow bore plastic tube.  (doctors surgery might give you two syringes if you ask nicely an the tube is used on fish tanks)\n\n\nThe plastic drinks bottle is going to be the chassis for your car.\n\nyou need to cut the following holes in it\n\n- small hole in the lid \n\n- Big hole in the side just smaller than the tennis ball\n\n- Small hole for the wires from the motor\n\n- small rectangle opposite the big hole, near the bottom of  the bottle, same width and length as the small wheel.\n\n- 2 small holes the same diameter as the dowel further up\n\n\nHot melt the motor to the inside of the lid with the shaft sticking through the hole.\n\nSecure the propellor to the front of it. \n\ncut two long lengths of wire.  Strip the ends and twist one wire around each of the terminals on the motor.\n\nFit the cap, motor & propellor wires.  push the motor wires though the bottle.\n\nPut a short length of dowel through the small wheel and then hot melt it inside the plastic bottle so the wheel sticks down through the hole you made.\n\nStick a long piece of Dowel through the two small holes at the front.  And pin the wheels on the axles.  All the Wheels rotate freely.\n\nHot melt  another piece of dowel to the bottom of the bottle so that it sticks up vertically.\n\nMake a rudder out of the 1/8" balsa. say 6" high and 3" deep.  Near the bottom stick a 1/2" long piece of dowel so that pokes out at 90°.\n\nTape the balsa to the vertical dowel along one side only so that it will hinge.\n\nHot melt a syringe to the top of the bottle so that the plunger is facing the rudder.  Attach a piece of dowel to the syringe plunger and then to the short bit of dowel sticking out of the rudder.  the rudder end needs to be able to move  ie pinned together.\n\nConnect the syringe to the plastic tube.\n\nWrap the wire from the motor and the tube together with tape to make an umbilical cord. \n\nconnect the other end of the tube to the syringe\n\nConnecting the battery up will give you forwards and reverse and pushing the syringe in and out will give you steering.\n\nThe tennis ball will just sit in the hole on top.
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There are a few items you will need:-\n1) A source of high voltage (to exicte the gas in your laser to emit photons). A readily availible item to do this would be the ballast (transformer) in a flourescent tube. This should get you up to between 700 to 1700 volts. It is preferabe if you have a supply closer to the upper end. This is dangerous so be sure to use appropriate precautions when working with high voltages.\n2) Choose the type of gas to excite. Gases to use include Carbon dioxide, helium, argon, neon, krypton - depending on the frequency you want from the laser. A nice big ruby could be used to make a really cool ruby laser - I could never afford to buy one though.\n3) build a laser tube - or better buy one from ebay. If you have glass blowing skills and make can make your own electrodes and embed them in the glass tube and make partial reflective mirrors on the end or the tube you can make one - but it's really tricky.\n4) fill your lser tube with the gas/gases you choose under reduced pressure.\n5) connect the electrodes to your power supply\n6) power it up....\nIt's as easy as that... uses the same basic principle to a flourescent tube, except that all the light from the partial reflector window is in phase.\n\nFor more detail I suggest you google something like "home made laser"
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Atoms are the building blocks from which matter is formed. Everything around us is made up of atoms. Nuclear energy is contained within the center of the atom in a place known as the nucleus. Particles within the nucleus are held together by a strong force. If a large nucleus is split apart (fission), generous amounts of energy can be liberated. Small nuclei can also be combined (fusion) with an accompanying release of energy. Using this strong force that holds the nucleus together to produce energy is essentially what the field of nuclear power generation is about.\n  In the fission process certain heavy elements, such as some forms of Uranium, are split when a neutron strikes them. When they split, they release energy in the form of kinetic energy (heat) and radiation. The process not only produces energy but also additional neutrons that can be used to fission other Uranium nuclei and start a chain reaction.\n  In fusion, nuclei of light elements are brought together under conditions of high pressure and temperature, causing them to combine and produce new elements and energy.
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atoms splitting apart by fission and protons clinging to the control rods in the reactor. there is steam produced also. and if you REALLY wanna see physical changes, jump in!
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In theory, yes.  You create a new element each time you add one more proton to the previous one.\n\nIn practice, there seems to be a practical limit to the stability of the artificial elements that requires exponentially increasing amounts of energy to create the heavier artificial elements.  And since these new elements are usually only stable for tiny fractions of a second, we can't hold them in place for long enough to pump another proton in.\n\nInstead, what physicists do is take larger stable atoms and smash them together, and then look for signs of new elements based on their expected decay particles.
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All of these techniques.  \n\nhttp://www.anachem.umu.se/jumpstation.htm
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Lots and lots of atoms fusing to make bigger and bigger atoms.
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what is the atom made of and explain how they work?
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I would suggest purchasing this fine model listed in the below source, if you have the money to do so (the painted plastic one, first one listed).  It is a bit expensive, but it is really the best I know of since it actually shows all the atoms and is quite accurate.  It comes with instructions and even tells you how to paint it.  I actually teach with this exact model.  If you don't have money to purchase that model, it is possible to make it yourself using your own materials, but I would use the photos of this model as a guide to how to go about doing it.  It really depends on what you need it for and how detailed you need it to be.
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there are many elements in the world.\nthe mass of the laptop is 5000 pounds.\nthe table there is a matter.\ni don't know what atom is
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Search at these sites.  It can be done, but it is usually not economical.\n\nhttp://www.scirus.com/srsapp/\n\nhttp://www.scienceresearch.com/search/
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Usually, you shoot a high energy neutron at it.  It's like in pool, when you break in billiards.  You shoot one ball very fast at the pile of balls, and then they break apart.
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Fission (the term meaning spliting atoms) is only possible with certain elements (elements which are much heavier than iron) like plutonium and uranium.\n\nIn a bomb, they are exploded with very strong explosives.
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Yes, it's done all the time in nuclear reactors. \n\nIt's done by shooting neutrons at atoms of Uranium-235, which is "fissionable", meaning it's a kind of atom that can be split. (Other kinds of atoms can't be split, at least not easily).\n\nThey don't pick the individual atoms they want to split; they just put a bunch of U-235 near a neutron source, and wait. Nor do they see the atoms. They determine it has been split by analyzing the uranium before and after it's been bombarded. Afterwards, there are trances of other elements that weren't there before. So that's how they know.
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Much like spliting an atom, spliting a second is a delicate process.  To split a second requires a "sec" accellerator.  You may be familiar with the "sec," it is often heard when asking someone a question.  They respond, "Just a 'sec.'"  \n\nLike a proton is part of an atom, so too the "sec" is part of a second.  By accelerating the sec to enormous speeds and cooliding it with a "second."\n\nInterestingly, when a second is split you get the obvious "sec," but the mysterious "ond" seems to elude detection.  Some physicists believe the "ond" cannot exist without the "sec," and that it immediately vaporizes.  They say this also explains the sudden release of anxity when seconds are split, as the "ond" is converted into emotional energy, often called "chi" or "kai".\n\nIf you want to read more about the spliting of a second, good luck finding it, as much of the research is considered top secret under govenrment funding.  Just as you asked, they also seek the ability to split the split-second.  They seek to discover a way to stop time by combining a "chain-reaction" of second splitting with re-spliting to total annilation of time with in a selected zone.  If successful, it could change modern warfare forever, not to mention our way of life.