How does a hydrodrogen bomb detonates?
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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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There are several different ways the bomb damages surroundings, depending on the distance from ground zero:\n\n1. Nearest the bomb explosion, severe heat vaporizes everything.\n2. Nuclear radiation moves out from the epicenter.\n3. Pressure shock-waves also move out from the epicenter, knocking down structures.\n4. Fallout comes down from the skies, coating everything.
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Hydrogen bomb is an atomic bomb, it use fusion instead of fission. \nFusion as you may know is when 4 hydrogen atoms get together and make a Helium atom, this process release a Notrino and lots of energy but it can't be performed in normal circumstances like Fission bombs where a Uranium atom breaks into two smaller atoms and release energy.\nIf what I remember from physic classes is true in order to make a fusion reaction a very hot enevironment needed, so Hydrogen bombs consist of a Fission Bomb which make this heat and a Fusion bomb.\nIt has a normal atomic bomb inside.\nIt reminds me of the title of Dr. Strangelove: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb.
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Conventional bombs are essentially a very violent chemical reaction, usually a very fast oxidation or a rapid decomposition of a very unstable compound.  In any case, a tremendous amount of heat is generated that causes a very fast expansion.  Aside from the heat generating a potential fireball, the rapid expansion creates shockwaves through the air and whatever other matter is in close proximity to the bomb.  It is this shockwave which does the most damage.\n\nAtomic/Nuclear weapons are a bit more complex, though the principles are essentially the same.  The chemical reaction is replaced by a nuclear chain reaction known as fission.  This produces a truly astronomical amount of heat, resulting in a mammoth shockwave.
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Basically, nucleus give up energy when they get heavier (by combineing several nucleons) until you get to iron (adding nucleons to iron and heavier nucleus costs you energy).\nThe largest energy output comes from combining hydrogen nucleus and getting helium (fusing helium returns a bit less energy and so on as it gets heavier).\nBut how to you fuse hydrogen nucleus togetenr? First, there is  this electon shell around that prevents nucleaus from getting close enough together to fuse; so the first step is to give enough energy so the atoms are ionized, in the case of hydrogen, that means getting the nucleus naked.  Then you have to get two nucleus together, but both of them contain a proton, and that emans you have to overcome the natural repulsion of like charges, this mens getting them hot enough so that they can slam inot one another, and this also requires having enough pressure so that there will be enough hydrogen nucleus around that there would be a good possibility of two of them hitting ona anotehr and fusing.\n\nAnd that is where it is getting complicated: we are talking about millions of degrees, so evidently nothing material can contain that without melting and evaporating, so one needs either inertial confinement (you heat it up so fast, the hydrogen does not have time to move) or magnetic confinement (since the atoms nucleus have the positive chage of the proton, they will respond to electrical and magnetic fields).\n\nThe sun accomplishes the heat/pressure/confinement trick by using its massive gravity; an advantage we do not have in a potential thermonuclear reactor.  But very smart people are working on it, hopefully they will figure out something that works.
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fusion \n\nIT CONVERTS HYDROGEN INTO HELIUM
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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.
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Sodium and Potassium are correct.  They are extremely reactive with water, forming Hydroxides and releasing Hydrogen gas, which is usually ignited from the exothermic heat of the reaction.\n\n2 Na + 2 H2O -> 2 NaOH + H2\n\n2 K + 2H2O -> 2 KOH + H2
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Everyone up until this point is more then 75% wrong. A Modern thermonuclear explosion occurs only one way. The other people who have answered your question before me have been watching too much TV or reading OLD encyclopedia's. A hydrogen bomb is not a thermonuclear explosion. Electrical shock...you got to be kidding me ...Detonation is accomplished by several means but the primary Explosion is small in comparison to the secondary blast. Highly radioactive or "HOT" Enriched Plutonium and or uranium particles are forced together at very high velocity,(Magnetically)the initial "Fusion" of these already unstable particles causes a exploding similar to TNT. The secondary explosion, or "Fission", destruction of the actual atoms of the forced together particles is what creates that horrific blast.The secondary blast itself has three stages. First an intense vacuum affect, the fission actually sucks oxygen atoms (or anything for that matter)into it.Secondly a shock wave will occur, thirdly the actual nuclear blast of super "Hot" and radioactive material.Material that was sucked in by the vacuum. Keep in mind that this all occurs withing a few seconds.
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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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I assume you mean nuclear "bomb"...\n\nIn simplistic terms, and nothing you can't easily find elsewhere, a nuclear bomb is made up of material that fissions (meaning that its atoms can be split to release energy) - this is either Uranium-325 or Plutonium.  Uranium is found in nature but the vast majority is U-238 which doesn't fission - natural uranium must be enriched to create a fissionable amount of uranium - this is true for commercial power reactor fuel too.   Plutonium is made in nuclear reactors from bombarding other materials with neutrons.\n\nTo have a "nuclear yield" the fissionable material in a bomb must be forced into a 'critical mass' configuration which means that it is so dense (atoms close together) that once the material starts to fission and release energy and neutrons, other atoms will capture the released neutons and then they will fission releasing more energy and neutrons and so on and so on with the chain reaction making the boom.\n\nWith the early plutonium bombs (Fat Man), the material was in a sphere and was forced together with high explosives uniformly to create a ball (critical mass). In the first uranium bomb (Little Boy, which they didn't even test until it was dropped on Japan since they were confident it would work) 2 uranium blobs were forced together by essentially thrusting/throwing/shooting one to the other to create the critical mass.  The math behind all this physics is incredibly complex.\n\nTo add bang for the buck they started adding the gas Tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, hence the name Hydrogen bomb versus just the Atomic Bomb...  Tritium makes the yield much bigger.
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To the chemist no, to the physicist yes.A nuclear explosion destroys matter and from so doing releases energy.
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There's literally trillions of atoms per cubic\ninch of matter. When you multiply that number times\nthe amount of energy released per atom, that's what you get.\n  The fascinating thing is that the ratio of energy \nreleased to the weight of matter gets smaller as the size\nof the atom gets smaller. At a certain size, somewhere\naround mid range of the heaviest and lightest atoms, no\nenergy is released at all. And the smaller the atom you\nconsider after that actually requires energy to split.\nHowever, at this level of size energy is released by\nfusing(smashing together) atoms. The smaller the atom,\nthe greater the energy released to weight ratio becomes.\nThe smallest atom is that of hydrogen and when hydrogen\natoms are fused an enormous amount of energy is released.\nThus, the power of a hydrogen bomb.
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It depends on the mass.  Take a look at the graph in the source link. Elements with an atomic mass lower than that of Iron (or there abouts) generally must have energy added to the system to split it.  Conversely, those same atoms lighter than iron will release enegy when you fuse them together.  This is the property of nuclear fission.  It is how the sun works to create heat and light by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium atoms, and it is also the principle behind the H-bomb (the hydrogen bomb, or the fusion bomb, which is much more powerful than the fission bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima).\n\nIf the atom is heavier than iron, it will release energy when you split it.  Heavy elements like uranium and plutonium are unstable, and will naturally decay, releasing particles and energy.  If these high-energy particles hit other unstable elements--like more uranium--you can get a chain reaction, which makes decay happen more quickly.  Under controlled levels of uranium density, you can make this heat useful to boil water and run turbines and generate energy.  But if the density of the unstable element is really high, the chain reaction can take off uncontrolably, causing a nuclear explosion.  this is the principle behind fission bombs, like those dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.\n\nHydrogen bombs require tritium, which is a rare isotope of hydrogen that has two neutrons.  the technology behind nuclear fusion is more complicated than that behind fission.  Power plants currently use fission, but fission has the problem of producing radioactive waste.  Hydrogen fusion has the problem of being hard to control, although people are working on developing a fusion reactor to generate energy, which would be advantageous.
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The doesn't really "burn" in the sense of chemically combining hydrogen and oxygen.  It shines because of energy produced by nuclear fusion.\n\nIn physics, nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus. It is accompanied by the release or absorption of energy depending on the masses of the nuclei involved. Iron and nickel nuclei have the largest binding energies per nucleon of all nuclei and therefore are the most stable. The fusion of two nuclei lighter than iron or nickel generally releases energy while the fusion of nuclei heavier than them absorbs energy; vice-versa for the reverse process, nuclear fission.\n\nNuclear fusion of light elements releases the energy that causes stars to shine and hydrogen bombs to explode. Nuclear fusion of heavy elements (absorbing energy) occurs in the extremely high-energy conditions of supernova explosions. Nuclear fusion in stars and supernovae is the primary process by which new natural elements are created. It is this reaction that is harnessed in fusion power.\n\nIt takes considerable energy to force nuclei to fuse, even those of the least massive element, hydrogen. But the fusion of lighter nuclei, which creates a heavier nucleus and a free neutron, will generally release more energy than it took to force them together — an exothermic process that can produce self-sustaining reactions.\n\nThe energy released in most nuclear reactions is much larger than that for chemical reactions, because the binding energy that holds a nucleus together is far greater than the energy that holds electrons to a nucleus. For example, the ionization energy gained by adding an electron to a hydrogen nucleus is 13.6 electron volts -- less than one-millionth of the 17 MeV released in the D-T (deuterium-tritium) reaction shown to the top right.\n\nThe steps of the main cycle of nuclear fusion in stars were worked out by Hans Bethe.  He won the Nobel prize for this work.
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I believe that what you really wanted to ask is; What's the difference between an atom bomb and a hydrogen bomb?  Atom bombs and hydrogen bombs are both considered nuclear weapons.  The atom bomb, or A-Bomb, derives its energy from nuclear fission, (large heavy atoms usually of plutonium breaking up into smaller light-weight atoms) while the hydrogen bomb, or H-Bomb, derives its energy from nuclear fusion, (small light-weight atoms usually tritium or deuterium combining into larger heavier atoms like helium).  Both have devastating long term consequences due to the radioactive fallout.
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Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the unstable radical Hydroxide, the components of which are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.