how the nucleus of an atom is actually split to create an atomic bomb?
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This whole thread gave me a flashback to my youth before I had even a middle school understanding of chemistry. My knowledge at that point was limited to “atoms are the smallest bits of matter”. So in my head an oxygen atom and a uranium atom were just two different balls. No concept of subatomic particles. So at that age, the very concept of splitting the atom was mind boggling to me. It definitely didn’t help that neither of my parents had taken chemistry in high school, so they couldn’t answer my burning questions either.
Jokes on them, I went on to study applied analytical chemistry as part of an environmental science program.
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