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Neutron
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:42:28

A neutron is a subatomic particle, symbol n or n0 , that has no electric charge, and a mass slightly greater than that of a proton. The neutron was discovered...

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Neutron star
Minggu, 2026-06-07 22:40:03

A neutron star is the gravitationally collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined...

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Neutron bomb
Minggu, 2026-05-17 16:20:47

A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron...

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Pulsar
Kamis, 2026-05-14 09:44:09

(pulsating star, on the model of quasar) is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic...

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Neutron temperature
Kamis, 2026-02-12 06:11:55

The neutron detection temperature, also called the neutron energy, indicates a free neutron's kinetic energy, usually given in electron volts. The term...

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Neutron (disambiguation)
Kamis, 2023-09-07 18:02:48

Look up neutron in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A neutron is a subatomic particle. Neutron may also refer to: Neutron (comics), the name of several...

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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:51:48

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a 2001 American animated science fiction comedy film directed by John A. Davis and written by Davis, Steve Oedekerk, David...

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Neutron decay
Sabtu, 2024-04-06 11:30:36

In nuclear physics, neutron decay may refer to: Neutron emission by an atomic nucleus Free neutron decay Beta decay of a neutron inside an atomic nucleus...

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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
Senin, 2026-06-08 04:39:27

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (or just The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron and often shortened as Jimmy Neutron) is an American animated science...

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List of Jimmy Neutron characters
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:36:25

characters in the American film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, its subsequent television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius and other media of the...

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Rocket Lab Neutron
Rabu, 2026-05-20 15:15:51

Neutron is a partially reusable, medium-lift, two-stage launch vehicle under development by Rocket Lab. Announced on March 1, 2021, the vehicle is designed...

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Jimmy Neutron
Jumat, 2026-05-22 07:33:33

"Jimmy" Neutron, commonly known as Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, is the protagonist and title character from the 2001 animated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius...

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Neutron poison
Senin, 2025-11-24 23:16:24

as nuclear reactors, a neutron poison (also called a neutron absorber or a nuclear poison) is a substance with a large neutron absorption cross-section...

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Demon core
Jumat, 2026-06-05 11:49:46

intended to demonstrate how close the core was to criticality, using a neutron-reflective tamper (layer of dense material surrounding the fissile material)...

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Neutron Dance
Kamis, 2026-02-26 12:49:10

"Neutron Dance" is a song written by Allee Willis and Danny Sembello which was introduced by the Pointer Sisters on their 1983 album Break Out. The song...

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Nuclear chain reaction
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 17:50:01

number of neutrons ejected: U 235 + neutron ⟶   fission fragments + 2.4  neutrons + 192.9  MeV Pu 239 + neutron ⟶   fission fragments + 2.9  neutrons + 198...

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List of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episodes
Minggu, 2026-05-31 18:40:18

Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episodes. The series is based on the 2001 film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius:...

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Neutron Star (disambiguation)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 03:27:42

Look up neutron star in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A neutron star is the extremely dense collapsed core of a supergiant star. Neutron Star may also...

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Neutron capture
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 08:52:20

Neutron capture is a nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus and one or more neutrons collide and merge to form a heavier nucleus. Since neutrons...

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Fissile material
Jumat, 2026-02-13 22:56:11

either slow neutrons (i.e., a thermal system) or fast neutrons. Fissile material can be used to fuel thermal-neutron reactors, fast-neutron reactors and...

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Neutron radiation
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 23:48:59

Neutron radiation is a form of ionizing radiation that presents as free neutrons. Typical phenomena are nuclear fission or nuclear fusion causing the release...

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Neutron moderator
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 20:49:58

engineering, a neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons, ideally without capturing any, leaving them as thermal neutrons with only...

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Magnetar
Rabu, 2026-04-29 22:19:48

A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field (~109 to 1011 T, ~1013 to 1015 G). The magnetic-field decay (or dissipation)...

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Neutron star merger
Rabu, 2026-06-03 23:29:07

A neutron star merger is the stellar collision of neutron stars. When two neutron stars fall into mutual orbit, they gradually spiral inward due to the...

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Self Powered Neutron Detector
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 01:18:27

Self Powered Neutron Detector (SPND) is a neutron detector used in nuclear fission reactors. It is a compact device extensively used worldwide for mapping...

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Nuclear fission
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:33:29

Hahn and Strassmann predicted the existence and liberation of additional neutrons during the fission process, opening up the possibility of a nuclear chain...

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Discovery of the neutron
Selasa, 2026-05-12 19:01:34

The discovery of the neutron and its properties was central to the extraordinary developments in atomic physics in the first half of the 20th century...

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Neutron (Linus)
Jumat, 2026-05-15 01:33:47

Neutron is an Italian comic book series and the name of the eponymous main character created in 1965 by Guido Crepax. The series eventually became Valentina...

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Neutron flux
Senin, 2026-02-09 14:44:40

The neutron flux is a scalar quantity used in nuclear physics and nuclear reactor physics. It is the total distance travelled by all free neutrons per...

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Neutron activation
Minggu, 2025-11-02 14:38:32

Neutron activation is the process in which neutron radiation induces radioactivity in materials, and occurs when atomic nuclei capture free neutrons, becoming...

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Neutron embrittlement
Senin, 2026-04-27 17:41:24

Neutron embrittlement, sometimes more broadly radiation embrittlement, is the embrittlement of various materials due to the action of neutrons. This is...

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Isotope
Rabu, 2026-04-29 22:24:52

but different nucleon numbers (mass numbers) due to different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei. While all isotopes of a given element have virtually the...

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Neutron cross section
Minggu, 2026-05-10 05:31:35

concept of a neutron cross section is used to express the likelihood of interaction between an incident neutron and a target nucleus. The neutron cross section...

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Neutron number
Jumat, 2025-12-12 22:20:13

The neutron number (symbol N) is the number of neutrons in a nuclide. Atomic number (proton number) plus neutron number equals mass number: Z + N = A....

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Neutron transport
Jumat, 2026-02-13 04:31:56

Neutron transport (also known as neutronics) is the study of the motions and interactions of neutrons with materials. The neutron transport equation models...

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LARMOR neutron microscope
Minggu, 2023-11-26 03:59:00

The LARMOR neutron microscope is a microscope based on the principle of neutron scattering. It is named in honor of Joseph Larmor and the principle of...

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Jimmy Neutron (disambiguation)
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 22:34:35

Jimmy Neutron is a fictional character. Jimmy Neutron may also refer to: Jimmy Neutron (franchise) Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, the 2001 animated film Jimmy...

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Neutron emission
Minggu, 2026-04-26 00:21:17

Neutron emission is a mode of radioactive decay in which one or more neutrons are ejected from a nucleus. It occurs in the most neutron-rich/proton-deficient...

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Fast-neutron reactor
Rabu, 2026-05-20 19:21:12

sustained by fast neutrons (carrying energies above 1 MeV, on average), as opposed to slow thermal neutrons used in thermal-neutron reactors. Such a fast...

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Neutron source
Senin, 2025-11-10 12:21:49

A neutron source is any device that emits neutrons, irrespective of the mechanism used to produce the neutrons. Neutron sources are used in physics, engineering...

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Neutron diffraction
Kamis, 2026-04-30 21:22:22

Neutron diffraction or elastic neutron scattering is the application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure...

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Neutron (synthesizer)
Minggu, 2026-05-03 22:29:06

The Neutron is a dual-oscillator monophonic synthesizer manufactured by Behringer. Released in 2018, the Neutron has an analogue signal path and uses subtractive...

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Nuclear drip line
Senin, 2026-01-05 12:34:17

unbound with respect to the emission of a proton or neutron. An arbitrary combination of protons and neutrons does not necessarily yield a stable nucleus. One...

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Neutron detection
Jumat, 2026-05-29 15:19:31

Neutron detection is the effective detection of neutrons entering a well-positioned detector. There are two key aspects to effective neutron detection:...

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Neutron scattering
Senin, 2026-06-08 08:07:37

Neutron scattering, the irregular dispersal of free neutrons by matter, can refer to either the naturally occurring physical process itself or to the man-made...

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Nuclear reactor
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:45:55

single neutrons and split, releasing energy and multiple neutrons, which can induce further fission. Reactors stabilize this, regulating neutron absorbers...

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Neutron (comics)
Kamis, 2022-05-19 05:44:54

Neutron may refer to several comic book characters: Neutron (DC Comics), a DC Comics character Neutron (Linus), an Italian comics character from Linus...

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Free neutron decay
Minggu, 2026-04-19 21:35:10

A free neutron refers to a neutron that is not bound to an atomic nucleus. When embedded in a stable nuclide, neutrons have not been observed to decay...

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Neutron reflector
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:24:48

A neutron reflector is any material that reflects neutrons. This refers to elastic scattering rather than to a specular reflection. Neutron reflectors...

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Neutron activation analysis
Minggu, 2026-05-17 07:07:07

Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is a nuclear process used for determining the concentrations of elements in many materials. NAA allows discrete sampling...

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Degenerate matter
Rabu, 2026-05-13 10:25:07

astrophysics to refer to dense stellar objects such as white dwarfs and neutron stars, where thermal pressure alone is not enough to prevent gravitational...

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Neutron capture nucleosynthesis
Senin, 2023-07-17 20:57:18

Neutron capture nucleosynthesis describes two nucleosynthesis pathways: the r-process and the s-process, for rapid and slow neutron captures, respectively...

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Atomic nucleus
Selasa, 2026-05-12 23:45:51

The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford at the...

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Prompt neutron
Rabu, 2025-12-10 00:15:39

engineering, a prompt neutron is a neutron immediately emitted (neutron emission) by a nuclear fission event, as opposed to a delayed neutron decay which can...

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Neutron (game)
Minggu, 2024-11-24 07:29:13

Neutron is a two-player abstract strategy game invented by Robert A. Kraus. The game was first published in the Playroom section of Games & Puzzles in...

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Atom
Selasa, 2026-06-02 17:51:56

blocks of matter. An atom consists of a nucleus of protons and generally neutrons, surrounded by an electromagnetically bound swarm of electrons. The chemical...

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Thermal-neutron reactor
Senin, 2026-03-02 08:54:03

A thermal-neutron reactor is a nuclear reactor that uses slow or thermal neutrons. ("Thermal" does not mean hot in an absolute sense, but means in thermal...

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Neutron generator
Jumat, 2025-09-12 21:13:57

Neutron generators are neutron source devices which contain compact linear particle accelerators and that produce neutrons by fusing isotopes of hydrogen...

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Jimmy Neutron (franchise)
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:27:35

Jimmy Neutron is a Nickelodeon-owned and computer-animated kids' media franchise created by John A. Davis in the 1980s and commenced in 1998 with the...

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Neutron economy
Sabtu, 2024-02-10 03:02:23

Neutron economy is defined as the ratio of excess neutron production divided by the rate of fission. The numbers are a weighted average based primarily...

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Ultracold neutrons
Kamis, 2026-04-30 20:47:15

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) are free neutrons which can be stored in traps made from certain materials. The storage is based on the reflection of UCN by such...

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Critical mass
Jumat, 2026-02-06 15:36:07

neutron population. A numerical measure of a critical mass depends on the effective neutron multiplication factor k, the average number of neutrons released...

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R-process
Selasa, 2026-05-26 05:43:27

In nuclear astrophysics, the rapid neutron-capture process, also known as the r-process, is a set of nuclear reactions that is responsible for the creation...

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Enrico Fermi
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:58:48

radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons". He has been called the...

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Jeff Garcia (comedian)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:05:46

Estevez in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius as well as its two Nickelodeon spin-off television show series—The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius and Planet...

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Black hole
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:45:44

star compresses until neutron degeneracy pressure resists gravity, forming a neutron star. If the star is even more massive, neutron degeneracy pressure...

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National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 11:46:20

nanoscale science and technology, engineering, information technology, neutron research, material measurement, and physical measurement. From 1901 to...

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Delayed neutron
Jumat, 2025-12-05 19:13:19

In nuclear engineering, a delayed neutron is a neutron released not immediately during a nuclear fission event, but shortly afterward—ranging from milliseconds...

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Neutron capture therapy of cancer
Rabu, 2026-02-04 16:15:36

Neutron capture therapy (NCT) is a type of radiotherapy for treating locally invasive malignant tumors such as primary brain tumors, recurrent cancers...

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Neutron stars in fiction
Senin, 2025-10-20 07:29:50

Neutron stars—extremely dense remnants of stars that have undergone supernova events—have appeared in fiction since the 1960s. Their immense gravitational...

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Neutron microscope
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:33:27

Neutron microscopes use neutrons focused by small-angle neutron scattering to create images by passing neutrons through an object to be investigated....

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Beta decay
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 12:57:03

transforming into an isobar of that nuclide. For example, beta decay of a neutron transforms it into a proton by the emission of an electron accompanied...

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Control rod
Kamis, 2026-04-02 03:19:15

of absorbing many neutrons without themselves decaying. These elements have different neutron capture cross sections for neutrons of various energies...

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Jack Welch
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:58:58

management hierarchy. During the early 1980s he was dubbed "Neutron Jack" (in reference to the neutron bomb) for eliminating employees while leaving buildings...

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Neutron supermirror
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 02:31:39

A neutron supermirror is a highly polished, layered material used to reflect neutron beams. Supermirrors are a special case of multi-layer neutron reflectors...

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Fusion power
Minggu, 2026-05-31 17:04:02

known as DT fusion. This reaction forms a helium nucleus and an energetic neutron. Fusion fuel is extremely energy-dense, but tritium is scarce on Earth...

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Aneutronic fusion
Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:35:58

is carried by neutrons. While the lowest-threshold nuclear fusion reactions release up to 80% of their energy in the form of neutrons, aneutronic reactions...

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Neutron spectroscopy
Jumat, 2025-05-23 19:24:18

Neutron spectroscopy is a spectroscopic method of measuring atomic and magnetic motions by measuring the kinetic energy of emitted neutrons. The measured...

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Light-water reactor
Kamis, 2026-05-14 06:29:16

(LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator; furthermore a solid...

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Beryllium
Kamis, 2026-05-28 00:28:10

relation to neutron energy, allowing for significant slowing of higher-energy neutrons. Therefore, it works as a neutron reflector and neutron moderator;...

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Rocket Lab
Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:20:47

hypersonic technology development, while the next-generation reusable Neutron medium-lift launch vehicle is in development to support constellation deployment...

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Nuclear physics
Kamis, 2026-04-09 06:13:22

— only protons and neutrons — and that neutrons were spin 1⁄2 particles, which explained the mass not due to protons. The neutron spin immediately solved...

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Steve Oedekerk
Rabu, 2026-04-29 11:20:15

Snowman 3D, Barnyard, and The Nutty Professor remake. For his film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Oedekerk was nominated for an Academy Award. Oedekerk was...

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Thermonuclear weapon
Minggu, 2026-05-17 05:46:05

thermonuclear fuel, primarily lithium-6 deuteride. During detonation, neutrons convert lithium-6 to helium-4 plus tritium. The heavy isotopes of hydrogen...

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:47:45

second most powerful. The lab is a neutron and nuclear power research facility that includes the Spallation Neutron Source, the High Flux Isotope Reactor...

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Halo nucleus
Selasa, 2025-11-04 01:20:40

when it has a core nucleus surrounded by a "halo" of orbiting protons or neutrons, which makes the radius of the nucleus appreciably larger than that predicted...

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Neutron spin echo
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:03:31

Neutron spin echo spectroscopy is an inelastic neutron scattering technique invented by Ferenc Mezei in the 1970s and developed in collaboration with John...

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Radiation
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:52:30

such as alpha radiation (α), beta radiation (β), proton radiation and neutron radiation acoustic radiation, such as ultrasound, sound, and seismic waves...

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Californium
Senin, 2026-06-08 02:19:11

rapid depletion by reaction with another neutron (high neutron cross section). 252Cf is a very strong neutron emitter, which makes it an extremely hazardous...

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Neutron and Star
Jumat, 2024-07-19 16:54:59

Neutron and Star, also known as Seventh Heaven, is a British trance duo consisting of producer/writer Alan Stott and vocalist/writer Lucy Clarke. "Neutron...

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Supernova
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 02:22:08

fusion. The original object, called the progenitor, either collapses to a neutron star or black hole, or is completely destroyed to form a diffuse nebula...

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Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor
Senin, 2026-04-13 16:15:22

The neutrons needed for sustaining the fission process would be provided by a particle accelerator producing neutrons by spallation or photo-neutron production...

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Spallation Neutron Source
Jumat, 2026-02-27 17:37:06

Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source facility in the U.S. that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the...

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Nuclear weapon design
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:39:26

fission weapons that use nuclear fusion reactions to generate high-energy neutrons that accelerate the fission chain reaction and increase its efficiency...

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Criticality accident
Senin, 2026-03-23 22:11:01

called delayed neutron emitters. This delayed neutron fraction, on the order of 0.007 for uranium, is crucial for the control of the neutron chain reaction...

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Neutron probe
Minggu, 2025-05-11 02:40:37

A neutron probe is a device used to measure the quantity of water present in soil. A typical neutron probe contains a pellet of americium-241 and beryllium...

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Mirror matter
Selasa, 2026-05-19 21:17:26

ordinary neutrinos. Another possible way to evade the GZK bound is via neutron–mirror neutron oscillations. If mirror matter is present in the universe with sufficient...

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Boron neutron capture therapeutics
Senin, 2026-02-23 19:47:14

Boron neutron capture therapeutics are pharmaceuticals intended for use to deliver boron-10 to cancerous cells as part of boron neutron capture therapy...

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Quark star
Kamis, 2026-06-04 16:15:32

matter consisting of free quarks. Some massive stars collapse to form neutron stars at the end of their life cycle, as has been both observed and explained...

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Uranium
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:32:21

uranium-238 (which has 146 neutrons and accounts for over 99% of uranium on Earth) and uranium-235 (which has 143 neutrons). Uranium has the highest atomic...

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Neutron (DC Comics)
Rabu, 2026-03-04 07:11:55

Neutron (Nathaniel Tryon) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily as an enemy of Superman. Neutron...

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Neutron electric dipole moment
Selasa, 2026-03-03 02:04:37

The neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM), denoted dn, is a measure for the distribution of positive and negative charge inside the neutron. A nonzero...

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Neutron moisture gauge
Selasa, 2026-05-26 17:11:22

A neutron moisture meter is a moisture meter utilizing neutron scattering. The meters are most frequently used to measure the water content in soil or...

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Valley of stability
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 00:47:06

composed of protons and neutrons. The shape of the valley refers to the profile of binding energy as a function of the numbers of neutrons and protons, with...

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Deuterium
Rabu, 2026-03-25 20:38:33

nucleus (deuteron) contains one proton and one neutron, whereas the far more common 1H has no neutrons. The name deuterium comes from Greek deuteros,...

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Even and odd atomic nuclei
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 14:25:52

depend on evenness or oddness of its atomic number (proton number) Z, neutron number N and, consequently, of their sum, the mass number A. Most importantly...

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Neutron monitor
Rabu, 2025-11-26 15:56:15

A neutron monitor is a ground-based detector designed to measure the number of high-energy charged particles striking the Earth's atmosphere from outer...

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Neutron interferometer
Jumat, 2026-05-29 08:19:21

In physics, a neutron interferometer is an interferometer capable of diffracting neutrons, allowing the wave-like nature of neutrons, and other related...

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Neutron imaging
Jumat, 2026-02-27 22:58:03

Neutron imaging is the process of making an image with neutrons. The resulting image is based on the neutron attenuation properties of the imaged object...

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Neutron–proton ratio
Kamis, 2026-04-09 01:21:12

The neutron–proton ratio (N/Z ratio or nuclear ratio) of an atomic nucleus is the ratio of its number of neutrons to its number of protons. Among stable...

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Neutron reflectometry
Senin, 2025-03-03 13:33:27

Neutron reflectometry is a neutron diffraction technique for measuring the structure of thin films, similar to the often complementary techniques of X-ray...

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Nuclear reactor physics
Senin, 2026-03-23 11:01:13

reactor, the neutron population at any instant is a function of the rate of neutron production (due to fission processes) and the rate of neutron losses (due...

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Proton
Kamis, 2026-05-21 09:07:25

than the mass of a neutron and approximately 1836 times the mass of an electron (the proton-to-electron mass ratio). Protons and neutrons, each with a mass...

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Small-angle neutron scattering
Rabu, 2026-04-01 02:40:13

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is an experimental technique that uses elastic neutron scattering at small scattering angles to investigate the structure...

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Prompt criticality
Rabu, 2026-04-08 17:05:17

self-sustaining) that is achieved with prompt neutrons alone (without the efforts of delayed neutrons). As a result, prompt supercriticality causes a...

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Gravitational wave
Selasa, 2026-05-26 14:43:51

studied this way include binary star systems composed of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; events such as supernovae; and the formation of...

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Tritium
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:21:23

contains one proton and two neutrons, whereas the nucleus of the common isotope hydrogen-1 (protium) contains one proton and no neutrons, and that of non-radioactive...

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Thorne–Żytkow object
Kamis, 2026-05-07 01:40:17

giant or red supergiant contains a neutron star at its core, formed from the collision of the giant with the neutron star. Such objects were hypothesized...

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Nucleosynthesis
Jumat, 2026-04-10 13:32:19

that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons (protons and neutrons) and nuclei. According to current theories, the first nuclei were formed...

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Debi Derryberry
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 10:47:49

games. She is best known for voicing the titular protagonist of the Jimmy Neutron franchise. Derryberry was born in Indio, California to a family of Hungarian-Jewish...

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James Chadwick
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:37:11

who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the...

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Charles J. Horowitz
Selasa, 2026-04-07 05:30:26

American theoretical nuclear physicist known for his research on neutron-rich matter, neutron-star structure, neutrino interactions, and parity-violating electron...

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Resonance escape probability
Jumat, 2026-04-17 07:41:35

a neutron will slow down from fission energy to thermal energies without being captured by a nuclear resonance. A resonance absorption of a neutron in...

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Nucleon magnetic moment
Minggu, 2026-01-04 11:30:43

dipole moments of the proton and neutron, symbols  μp  and  μn . The nucleus of an atom comprises protons and neutrons, both nucleons that behave as small...

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David Hahn
Minggu, 2026-06-07 21:26:49

he never managed to build a functioning reactor, he did build a crude neutron source. In August 1994, Hahn's progress attracted the attention of local...

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Breeder reactor
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 06:41:14

achieve this because their neutron economy is high enough to create more fissile fuel than they use. These extra neutrons are absorbed by the fertile...

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Formation evaluation neutron porosity
Selasa, 2026-03-24 19:16:44

key measurements to quantify oil and gas reserves. Neutron porosity measurement employs a neutron source to measure the hydrogen index in a reservoir...

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Subcritical reactor
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 10:02:28

subcritical reactor uses additional neutrons from an outside source. There are two general classes of such devices. One uses neutrons provided by a nuclear fusion...

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Island of stability
Kamis, 2026-04-30 00:58:18

attributed to stabilizing effects of predicted "magic numbers" of protons and neutrons in the superheavy mass region. Several predictions have been made regarding...

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Neutron magnetic imaging
Jumat, 2026-02-20 14:55:26

Several neutron scattering techniques have been developed to use thermal neutrons to characterize magnetic micro and nanostructures. Small-angle neutron scattering...

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Uranium-235
Jumat, 2026-05-29 00:14:22

cross section for slow thermal neutrons is about 584.3±1 barns. For fast neutrons it is on the order of 1 barn. Most neutron absorptions induce fission,...

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Startup neutron source
Sabtu, 2024-12-21 19:06:34

A startup neutron source is a neutron source used for stable and reliable initiation of nuclear chain reaction in nuclear reactors, when they are loaded...

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Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 03:30:54

Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends is a rock band formed in Oakland, California in 2015 by vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Conan Neutron and intended as...

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Antineutron
Senin, 2026-05-11 00:18:39

The antineutron is the antiparticle of the neutron with symbol n. It differs from the neutron only in that some of its properties have equal magnitude...

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Be/X-ray binary
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 20:16:57

class of high-mass X-ray binaries that consist of a Be star and a neutron star. The neutron star is usually in a wide highly elliptical orbit around the Be...

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Iodine pit
Minggu, 2026-05-17 01:35:20

short-lived neutron poisons in the reactor core. The main isotope responsible is 135Xe, mainly produced by beta decay of 135I. 135I is a weak neutron absorber...

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Megan Cavanagh (actress)
Kamis, 2026-03-26 18:54:54

of Jimmy Neutron's mother Judy in the animated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), and its television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius...

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Modulated neutron initiator
Senin, 2025-11-10 12:15:11

A modulated neutron initiator is a neutron source capable of producing a burst of neutrons on activation. It is a crucial part of some nuclear weapons...

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Archimedes (rocket engine)
Jumat, 2025-08-08 21:01:34

combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab for its Neutron rocket. Archimedes was presented on December 2, 2021, in a webcast by Rocket...

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Gold
Senin, 2026-06-01 23:27:43

nucleosynthesis, neutron star collisions, and magnetar flares. All three sources involve a process called the r-process (rapid neutron capture), which...

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ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:08:09

The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a pulsed neutron and muon source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) of the Science and Technology Facilities...

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Neutron-induced swelling
Jumat, 2026-02-27 17:30:04

Neutron-induced swelling is the increase of volume and decrease of density of materials subjected to intense neutron radiation. Neutrons impacting the...

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Neutron howitzer
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:18:35

A neutron howitzer is a neutron source that emits neutrons in a single direction. It was discovered in the 1930s that alpha radiation that strikes the...

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Molten-salt reactor
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:25:22

with neutrons. MSRs using fast neutrons cannot use graphite, because it moderates neutrons. Thermal MSRs have lower breeding ratios than fast-neutron breeders...

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Neutron tomography
Selasa, 2025-10-28 06:28:54

Neutron tomography is a form of computed tomography involving the production of three-dimensional images by the detection of the absorbance of neutrons...

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Radioactive decay
Jumat, 2026-05-29 06:41:52

transmutation resulting in a daughter containing a different number of protons or neutrons (or both). When the number of protons changes, an atom of a different chemical...

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Third Doctor
Jumat, 2026-05-01 19:29:22

the polarity of the neutron flow?" and the Doctor proceeds to explain that the phrase is meaningless (though in reality neutrons can be polarized by a...

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Isotopes of uranium
Rabu, 2026-04-29 17:56:53

product of 244Pu, also produced by neutron capture of 235U Neutron capture product, parent of trace quantities of 237Np Neutron capture product; parent of trace...

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Nuclear fusion
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:28:07

include fusion power, thermonuclear weapons, boosted fission weapons, neutron sources, and superheavy element production. American chemist William Draper...

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Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 05:23:11

"Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)" is a song by the English rock band Muse, featured on the soundtrack to the 2010 film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse...

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Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast
Kamis, 2026-05-21 02:03:22

Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast was a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida that replaced The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera based on the animated...

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Neutron Trail
Rabu, 2025-01-08 21:47:24

The Neutron Trail is an open cultural dialogue into our shared nuclear legacy intended to raise awareness and stimulate strategic thinking around nuclear...

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Neutron Man
Jumat, 2025-12-12 11:08:28

The Neutron Man (March 30, 1942 – October 7, 2004), real name Orlas King, was a popular Ohio State Buckeyes fan for over thirty years. Always seated by...

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Quasielastic neutron scattering
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:01:48

Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) designates a limiting case of inelastic neutron scattering, characterized by energy transfers being small compared...

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Atomic number
Kamis, 2026-05-28 08:35:06

neutrons and electrons, the sum of the atomic number Z and the neutron number N gives the atom's atomic mass number A. Since protons and neutrons have...

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Neutronium
Kamis, 2026-05-28 08:18:20

substance made purely of neutrons. The word was coined by scientist Andreas von Antropoff in 1926 (before the 1932 discovery of the neutron) for the hypothetical...

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Neutron triple-axis spectrometry
Kamis, 2025-11-13 14:14:38

three axis spectroscopy) is a technique used in conjunction with inelastic neutron scattering. The instrument is referred to as triple-axis spectrometer (also...

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Neutron Star (short story)
Kamis, 2026-01-29 09:15:10

"Neutron Star" is an English language science fiction short story by American writer Larry Niven. It was originally published in the October 1966 issue...

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Spallation
Minggu, 2026-05-03 09:09:56

spallation neutron is six times lower than that of a neutron gained via nuclear fission. In contrast to nuclear fission, the spallation neutrons cannot trigger...

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Neutrino
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:08:04

bombs, or particle accelerators, supernovas, during the spin-down of a neutron star and when cosmic rays or accelerated particle beams strike atoms The...

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Nuclide
Selasa, 2026-01-20 14:17:04

of atoms characterized by their number of protons, Z, their number of neutrons, N, and their nuclear energy state. The word nuclide was coined by the...

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Carolyn Lawrence
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 05:09:22

including Sandy Cheeks on SpongeBob SquarePants, Cindy Vortex on Jimmy Neutron, and Mandragora in the Nickelodeon version of Winx Club. She also voiced...

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Samuel T. Cohen
Rabu, 2026-04-15 10:15:33

was an American physicist who is generally credited as the father of the neutron bomb. Cohen's parents were Austrian Jews who emigrated from London, England...

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Neutron Tide
Jumat, 2025-04-25 00:28:25

"Neutron Tide" is a short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1970 in Galaxy Science Fiction. It is among his shortest pieces...

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Plutonium-241
Senin, 2026-04-06 09:10:37

when plutonium-240 captures a neutron. Like some other plutonium isotopes (especially 239Pu), 241Pu is fissile, with a neutron absorption cross section about...

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Small modular reactor
Jumat, 2026-06-05 16:00:20

encompass various reactor types, including Generation IV, thermal-neutron reactors, fast-neutron reactors, molten salt reactor, and gas-cooled reactor models...

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Nucleon
Minggu, 2026-03-08 01:14:57

In physics and chemistry, a nucleon is either a proton or a neutron, considered in its role as a component of an atomic nucleus. The number of nucleons...

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Radionuclide
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:55:47

deliberately with nuclear reactors, exploiting the high flux of neutrons present. These neutrons activate elements placed within the reactor. A typical product...

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OpenStack
Rabu, 2026-03-04 06:21:25

Collider. Several OpenStack projects changed names due to trademark issues. Neutron was formerly known as Quantum. Sahara used to be called Savanna. Designate...

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Harry Daghlian
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:45:46

During an experiment on August 21, 1945, Daghlian was attempting to build a neutron reflector manually by stacking a set of 4.4-kilogram (9.7 lb) tungsten...

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Ionizing radiation
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 17:04:35

Ionizing subatomic particles include alpha particles, beta particles, and neutrons. These particles are created by radioactive decay, and almost all are energetic...

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Nuclear pasta
Kamis, 2026-05-28 20:02:34

the crusts of neutron stars. If it exists, nuclear pasta would be the strongest material in the universe. Between the surface of a neutron star and the...

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Deuterium–tritium fusion
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:32:50

(triton), giving one helium-4 nucleus, one free neutron, and 17.6 MeV of total energy coming from both the neutron and helium. It is the best known fusion reaction...

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FRM II
Selasa, 2025-09-02 18:55:11

The Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (Forschungsreaktor München II or FRM II) (German: Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz) is...

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Nuclear binding energy
Senin, 2026-05-11 13:07:38

fully disassemble the nucleus of one atom into its constituent protons and neutrons, known collectively as nucleons. The binding energy for stable nuclei is...

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List of neutron stars
Rabu, 2026-03-04 19:01:38

Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of supergiant stars. They are created as a result of supernovas and gravitational collapse, and are the second-smallest...

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Natural nuclear fission reactor
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 05:57:57

with 235 U and due to it being both consumed by neutron capture and produced from 235 U by fast-neutron-induced (n,2n) reactions in nuclear reactors. In...

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Quark
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:56:52

composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly observable matter is composed...

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Californium neutron flux multiplier
Kamis, 2023-10-19 16:10:54

A californium neutron flux multiplier (CFX) is a source of neutrons for research purposes. It contains a small amount of californium-252 and several plates...

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Shell collapsar
Senin, 2026-03-09 10:26:36

event horizon, forming a compact shell of ultra-high density. Being of neutron star size (~11km), this hypothetical object strongly deflects light rays...

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Neutron scattering length
Rabu, 2026-04-01 02:29:03

A neutron may pass by a nucleus with a probability determined by the nuclear interaction distance, or be absorbed, or undergo scattering that may be either...

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Nuclear transmutation
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:12:59

Nuclear transmutation occurs in any process where the number of protons or neutrons in the nucleus of an atom is changed. A transmutation can be achieved either...

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Particle physics
Jumat, 2026-05-22 04:38:20

particles up to the scale of protons and neutrons, while the study of combinations of protons and neutrons is called nuclear physics. The fundamental...

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Pressurized heavy-water reactor
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:46:33

reactor that uses heavy water (deuterium oxide D2O) as its coolant and neutron moderator. PHWRs frequently use natural uranium as fuel, but sometimes...

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Chicago Pile-1
Minggu, 2026-05-31 10:15:31

Italy, Fermi had discovered that collisions between neutrons and neutron moderators can slow the neutrons, and thereby make them more likely to be captured...

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Uranium-238
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:21:55

cannot sustain a chain reaction in a thermal-neutron reactor. However, it is fissionable by fast neutrons, and is fertile, meaning it can be transmuted...

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RX J1856.5−3754
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:28:17

designations) is a neutron star in the constellation Corona Australis. At approximately 400 light-years from Earth, it is the closest neutron star discovered...

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Nicktoons Unite!
Selasa, 2025-11-18 22:24:03

levels from SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, and The Fairly OddParents. The game was developed by Blue...

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Modular Neutron Array
Jumat, 2026-03-13 09:00:25

The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) is a large-area, high-efficiency neutron detector that is used in basic research of rare isotopes at Michigan State University's...

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Isotopes of oxygen
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:24:24

neutron emission to 24 O, whose half-life is 77 milliseconds; 24O, along with 28Ne, have been used in the model of reactions in the crust of neutron stars...

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White dwarf
Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:21:13

Stars like the Sun, whose mass is not high enough to collapse into a neutron star or black hole, are expected to become white dwarf stars later in their...

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Neutron-star oscillation
Minggu, 2025-10-26 04:07:05

the same way, the more extreme neutron stars might be studied and hopefully give us a better understanding of neutron-star interiors, and help in determining...

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Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
Senin, 2026-01-19 21:32:48

The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), formerly known as the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF), is one of the world's most powerful linear...

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Compact object
Minggu, 2026-03-29 20:30:49

compact object (or compact star) refers collectively to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. It could also include exotic stars if such hypothetical...

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CryoEDM
Jumat, 2026-03-13 10:21:46

electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron to a precision of ~10−28ecm. The name is an abbreviation of cryogenic neutron EDM experiment. The previous name...

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Chernobyl disaster
Kamis, 2026-05-28 21:16:50

previously produced iodine-135 were decaying into the neutron-absorbing xenon-135 faster than the reduced neutron flux could "burn it off". Xenon poisoning in...

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Fertile material
Senin, 2024-05-20 21:14:30

although not fissile itself, can be converted into a fissile material by neutron absorption. Naturally occurring fertile materials that can be converted...

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China Spallation Neutron Source
Kamis, 2026-05-21 22:12:04

The China Spallation Neutron Source is an accelerator-based neutron source, operated by the Institute of High Energy Physics, at Dongguan in Guangdong...

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List of most massive neutron stars
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 21:24:56

Neutron stars are the gravitational collapsed core of massive stars (9-10 solar masses) that have gone supernova. They are some of the densest objects...

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Scram
Rabu, 2026-04-29 13:55:05

containing neutron poisons directly into the reactor coolant. Neutron poison solutions are water-based solutions that contain chemicals that absorb neutrons, such...

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Neutron Time Of Flight
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:33:16

The Neutron Time Of Flight (n_TOF) facility is a neutron spectrometer at CERN, with the aim of studying neutron-nucleus interactions over a range of kinetic...

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Plutonium-239
Kamis, 2026-05-14 17:51:28

0.720% abundance) in a nuclear reactor produces two to three neutrons, and these neutrons can be absorbed by uranium-238 (with 99.3% abundance) to produce...

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Pressurized water reactor
Rabu, 2026-05-27 10:56:24

and pressurized heavy‑water reactors). In a PWR, water is used both as a neutron moderator and as coolant fluid for the reactor core. In the core, water...

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Strong interaction
Selasa, 2026-03-10 22:45:58

interactions. It confines quarks into protons, neutrons, and other hadron particles, and also binds neutrons and protons to create atomic nuclei, where it...

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Russia
Jumat, 2026-06-05 15:14:08

in nuclear energy technology and is considered a world leader in fast neutron reactors. Russia is the world's fourth-largest nuclear energy producer...

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Six factor formula
Minggu, 2026-02-15 00:49:20

{\displaystyle \nu _{f}} and ν t {\displaystyle \nu _{t}} are the average number of neutrons produced per fission in the medium (2.43 for uranium-235). σ f F {\displaystyle...

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Heavy water
Minggu, 2026-05-31 14:34:57

magnetic resonance, infrared spectroscopy, neutron moderation, neutrino detection, metabolic rate testing, neutron capture therapy, and the production of...

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Americium
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:09:47

Most americium is produced by uranium or plutonium being bombarded with neutrons in nuclear reactors – one tonne of spent nuclear fuel contains about 100...

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Habitability of neutron star systems
Jumat, 2025-08-01 10:15:08

The habitability of neutron star systems is the potential of planets and moons orbiting a neutron star to provide suitable habitats for life. Of the roughly...

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Americium-241
Jumat, 2026-05-15 22:52:18

americium isotopes by further neutron capture inside a nuclear reactor. In a light water reactor (LWR), 79% of neutron captures on 241Am convert to 242Am...

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Criticality (status)
Selasa, 2026-04-21 23:03:14

subcriticality, greater than 0 in supercriticality. In terms of effective neutron multiplication factor (Keff), Keff is 1 in criticality, less than 1 in...

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Enriched uranium
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 17:17:53

present in nature in appreciable quantities that is fissile with thermal neutrons. Enriched uranium is used in both civil nuclear power generation and military...

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Uranium-233
Senin, 2026-04-06 09:10:39

meaning a total of 4 neutrons needed to trigger fission). 233U usually fissions on neutron absorption, but sometimes retains the neutron, becoming uranium-234...

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Associated particle imaging
Jumat, 2026-03-20 05:09:00

Associated particle imaging (API), sometimes referred to as the tagged neutron method (TNM), is a three dimensional imaging technique that maps the distribution...

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Simon Lizotte
Kamis, 2026-01-08 19:25:11

Drivers: Wave (Neutron) Defy (Neutron) Panic (Neutron) Delirium (Neutron) Dimension (Neutron) Fairway Drivers: Fireball (Neutron) Terra (Neutron) Tesla (Proton)...

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Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 05:35:00

Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron is a video game for Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance. In the game, the player plays as Jimmy Neutron as he always...

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Cecil Kelley criticality accident
Kamis, 2026-04-16 15:19:56

neutron. Normally, the effective neutron multiplication factor (the average number of secondary neutrons provoked by one neutron) is intentionally kept far...

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DNA Productions
Senin, 2026-06-08 00:09:10

Jimmy Neutron character, who debuted in the company's 2001 film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. A television series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius...

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Plutonium
Selasa, 2026-06-02 01:56:26

found that when it is hit by a neutron it breaks apart (fissions) by releasing more neutrons and energy. These neutrons can hit other atoms of plutonium-239...

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Boosted fission weapon
Senin, 2026-06-08 05:20:40

The fast neutrons released by the fusion reactions add to the fast neutrons released by the fission reactions, allowing for more neutron-induced fission...

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PSR J1748−2446ad
Jumat, 2026-02-27 22:55:35

January 8, 2005. If the neutron star is assumed to contain less than two times the mass of the Sun, within the typical range of neutron stars, its radius is...

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Nuclear force
Rabu, 2026-05-13 00:14:35

between hadrons, most commonly observed between protons and neutrons of atoms. Neutrons and protons, both nucleons, are affected by the nuclear force...

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Isotone
Minggu, 2025-12-14 04:34:42

they have the same neutron number N, but different proton number Z. For example, boron-12 and carbon-13 nuclei both contain 7 neutrons, and so are isotones...

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Nuclear reaction
Jumat, 2026-04-24 13:30:37

Reactions with neutrons are important in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. While the best-known neutron reactions are neutron scattering, neutron capture...

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Oppenheimer–Phillips process
Jumat, 2025-09-05 03:00:06

reaction. In this process the neutron half of an energetic deuteron (a stable isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron) fuses with a target nucleus...

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SpongeBob SquarePants
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 08:38:39

Plankton: The Movie Search for SquarePants "Big Guy" Attractions Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast (cameo) Sandy's Blasting Bronco SpongeBob's Crazy Carnival...

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Nuclear weapon
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 10:02:29

absorbs a neutron, it undergoes nuclear fission, releasing energy and, on average, 2.5 neutrons. Because uranium-235 releases more neutrons than it absorbs...

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Fast neutron therapy
Senin, 2025-09-01 22:14:01

Fast neutron therapy utilizes high energy neutrons typically between 50 and 70 MeV to treat cancer. Most fast neutron therapy beams are produced by reactors...

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Boron
Kamis, 2026-05-28 00:35:48

is then treated with a beam of low energy neutrons at a relatively low neutron radiation dose. The neutrons trigger energetic and short-range secondary...

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Mark DeCarlo
Minggu, 2026-05-31 21:16:14

known for providing the voice of Hugh Neutron, the title character's father in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius for Nickelodeon and for portraying...

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Matter
Senin, 2026-06-08 07:55:53

be imagined as a nucleus consisting of subatomic particles, protons and neutrons and a surrounding "cloud" of orbiting electrons that "take up space". However...

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Neptunium
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:04:27

in 1940. Since then, most neptunium has been and still is produced by neutron irradiation of uranium in nuclear reactors. The vast majority is generated...

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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 03:23:41

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies is a 2004 video game published by THQ. The game is based on the American animated...

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Isotopes of plutonium
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 02:44:54

(94Pu) is an artificial element, except for trace quantities resulting from neutron capture by uranium, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given....

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Xenon-135
Jumat, 2026-04-03 07:22:55

caesium-135. 135Xe is a fission product and it is the most powerful known neutron-absorbing nuclear poison (2 million barns; up to 3 million barns under...

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Nuclear fusion–fission hybrid
Rabu, 2026-05-13 23:09:14

to use high-energy fast neutrons from a fusion reactor to trigger fission in non-fissile fuels like 238U or 232Th. Each neutron can trigger several fission...

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GW170817
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:29:23

wave was produced by the last moments of the inspiral of a binary pair of neutron stars, ending with their merger. It is the first GW detection to be definitively...

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Virgin neutron
Sabtu, 2025-07-19 11:38:59

virgin neutron is a neutron which has originated from any source but has not yet collided with anything. Heinrich), Beckurts, K. H. (Karl (1964). Neutron physics...

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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius: Jet Fusion
Minggu, 2026-01-11 06:50:46

of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Jet Fusion is a video game released in 2003 based on the CGI animated TV series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius...

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Solar System
Kamis, 2026-06-04 22:32:32

Extreme Blue straggler Remnants Compact star White dwarf Helium planet Neutron Radio-quiet Pulsar Binary X-ray Magnetar Black hole Stellar black hole...

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Hadron
Senin, 2026-03-23 02:27:16

matter comes from two hadrons: the proton and the neutron, while most of the mass of the protons and neutrons is in turn due to the binding energy of their...

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Nuclear power plant
Minggu, 2026-05-31 00:47:11

uranium in a once-through fuel cycle. Fuel is removed when the percentage of neutron absorbing atoms becomes so large that a chain reaction can no longer be...

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Beta particle
Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:16:39

electron. An unstable atomic nucleus with an excess of neutrons may undergo β− decay, where a neutron is converted into a proton, an electron, and an electron...

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Heavy-water reactor
Rabu, 2026-02-11 05:19:01

as a neutron moderator. It may also use this as the coolant, in the case of pressurized heavy water reactors. Due to heavy water's low neutron absorption...

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Discovery of nuclear fission
Minggu, 2026-04-05 00:31:10

Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin bombarded uranium with slow neutrons and discovered that barium had been produced. Hahn suggested a bursting...

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Cargo scanning
Kamis, 2026-02-05 14:43:04

radiography Examples of neutron activation systems include: pulsed fast neutron analysis (PFNA), fast neutron analysis (FNA), and thermal neutron analysis (TNA)...

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Thorium fuel cycle
Rabu, 2026-05-06 16:46:41

material or another neutron source is necessary to initiate the fuel cycle. In a thorium-fuelled reactor, 232 Th absorbs neutrons to produce 233 U. This...

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Isotopes of hydrogen
Selasa, 2026-06-02 14:52:33

avoid confusion in alphabetic sorting of chemical formulas. 1H, with no neutrons, may be called protium to disambiguate. During the early study of radioactivity...

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Sodern
Kamis, 2025-11-20 13:16:51

Paris in Ile-de-France, specialized in space instrumentation, optics and neutron analyzers. Its shareholders are ArianeGroup (90%) and the French Alternative...

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Fission products (by element)
Jumat, 2026-05-15 19:05:48

plutonium. The isotopes are listed by element, in order by atomic number. Neutron capture by the nuclear fuel in nuclear reactors and atomic bombs also produces...

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Neutron resonance spin echo
Jumat, 2025-10-24 06:59:56

Neutron resonance spin echo is a quasielastic neutron scattering technique developed by Gähler and Golub. In its classic form it is used analogously to...

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S-process
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 09:43:31

The slow neutron-capture process, or s-process, is a series of reactions in nuclear astrophysics that occur in stars, particularly asymptotic giant branch...

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Subatomic particle
Senin, 2026-06-08 07:35:09

or an elementary particle. A composite particle, such as a proton or a neutron, is composed of other particles while an elementary particle, such as an...

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Geometric and material buckling
Selasa, 2025-10-14 09:29:50

buckling is a measure of neutron leakage and material buckling is a measure of the difference between neutron production and neutron absorption. When nuclear...

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Periodic table
Minggu, 2026-05-31 06:18:48

numbers of neutrons. For example, carbon has three naturally occurring isotopes: all of its atoms have six protons and most have six neutrons as well, but...

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Fritz Zwicky
Senin, 2026-05-04 12:25:06

propose supernovas as giant explosions at the end of a star's life, and neutron stars as the remnants left over after supernovas. In 1933, Zwicky proposed...

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Super-Neutron
Sabtu, 2025-08-30 00:49:47

"Super-Neutron" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the September 1941 issue of Astonishing Stories...

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Phoenix (nuclear technology company)
Jumat, 2025-09-12 19:58:51

formerly known as Phoenix Nuclear Labs, is a company specializing in neutron generator technology located in Monona, Wisconsin, United States. Founded...

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Neutron-velocity selector
Sabtu, 2020-10-24 05:10:59

A neutron-velocity selector is a device that allows neutrons of defined velocity to pass while absorbing all other neutrons, to produce a monochromatic...

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Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:14:02

suggested source of UHECR particles is their origination from neutron stars. In young neutron stars with spin periods of under 10 ms, the magnetohydrodynamic...

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Neutron research facility
Kamis, 2026-05-07 20:54:35

A neutron research facility is most commonly a big laboratory operating a large-scale neutron source that provides thermal neutrons to a suite of research...

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Andrea Martin
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:54:53

films, including Anastasia (1997), The Rugrats Movie (1998), and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001). From 2021 to 2024, she co-starred in the supernatural...

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Fermion
Rabu, 2026-03-11 09:43:49

as the proton or neutron, contains three fermionic quarks. The nucleus of a carbon-13 atom contains six protons and seven neutrons. The atom helium-3...

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Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment
Selasa, 2026-03-10 19:35:07

The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a water Cherenkov detector experiment designed to examine the nature of neutrino interactions...

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Strange matter
Minggu, 2026-03-29 23:32:04

extreme environments, strange matter is hypothesized to occur in the core of neutron stars, or, more speculatively, as isolated droplets that may vary in size...

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Neil Gaiman
Minggu, 2026-05-24 11:23:17

""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison (1966) "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven (1967) "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan...

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Jack Taylor (actor)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 21:29:47

featuring the Mexican characters Nostradamus the Vampire and the superhero Neutron. Reportedly, he relocated to Europe to appear in the film Cleopatra (1963)...

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Flattop (critical assembly)
Kamis, 2026-04-09 02:07:48

natural uranium neutron reflector. Flattop assemblies are used to measure neutron activation and reactivity coefficients. Since the neutron energies gradually...

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The Magnificent Seven (neutron stars)
Minggu, 2026-04-19 23:29:08

isolated neutron stars at a distance of 120 to 500 parsecs from Earth. These objects are also known under the names XDINS (X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars)...

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Einsteinium
Minggu, 2026-03-22 00:06:41

multiple neutron absorption was thought to be an extremely rare process, but the identification of 244Pu indicated that still more neutrons could have...

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Stellar evolution
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 21:10:31

a supernova as their inert iron cores collapse into an extremely dense neutron star or black hole. Although the universe is not old enough for any of...

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Switzerland
Jumat, 2026-05-29 10:09:08

Scherrer Institute was founded in his name to explore the therapeutic uses of neutron scattering technologies. Financial problems with the defence budget and...

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Powder diffraction
Senin, 2026-01-05 04:44:36

Powder diffraction is a scientific technique using X-ray, neutron, or electron diffraction on powder or microcrystalline samples for structural characterization...

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Four factor formula
Minggu, 2024-09-15 01:00:33

{\displaystyle \nu _{f}} and ν t {\displaystyle \nu _{t}} are the average number of neutrons produced per fission in the medium (2.43 for uranium-235). σ f F {\displaystyle...

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Real-time Neutron Monitor Database
Kamis, 2025-05-29 01:52:01

The Real-time Neutron Monitor Database (or NMDB) is a worldwide network of standardized neutron monitors, used to record variations of the primary cosmic...

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Martin Short
Minggu, 2026-05-24 09:58:35

in The Pebble and the Penguin (1995), The Prince of Egypt (1998), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), Treasure Planet (2002), Madagascar 3: Europe's Most...

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Dollar (reactivity)
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 22:54:20

ρ or ΔK/K) is related to the effective neutron multiplication factor (keff), the average number of all neutrons from one fission that cause another fission...

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Neutron depth profiling
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:35:26

Neutron depth profiling (NDP) is a near-surface analysis technique that is commonly used to obtain profiles of concentration as a function of depth for...

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RBMK
Senin, 2026-06-01 12:26:42

water (ordinary H2O) is both a neutron moderator and a neutron absorber. This means that not only can it slow down neutrons to velocities in equilibrium...

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Polonium
Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:15:05

produce. Today, polonium is usually produced in milligram quantities by the neutron irradiation of bismuth. Due to its intense radioactivity, which results...

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Fuzzball (string theory)
Jumat, 2026-05-22 16:19:47

singularity, a small fuzzball can be thought of as an extra-dense neutron star in which the neutrons have undergone a phase transition and decomposed, liberating...

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Big Bang nucleosynthesis
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 16:01:24

from protons and neutrons in the expanding and cooling early universe. The process occurs at equilibrium with protons and neutrons combining to create...

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Table of nuclides
Kamis, 2026-05-14 19:10:58

isotopes of the chemical elements, in which one axis represents the number of neutrons (symbol N) and the other represents the number of protons (atomic number...

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Nested neutron spectrometer
Jumat, 2025-07-18 16:25:33

nested neutron spectrometer (NNS) is a tool used for neutron spectroscopy. The NNS is used to measure the energy spectrum of neutrons in a neutron field...

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Strange star
Selasa, 2026-02-03 12:00:02

the core of neutron stars, in the same way as ordinary quark matter could. Such strange stars will naturally have a crust layer of neutron matter. The...

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Radio-quiet neutron star
Senin, 2025-11-10 23:06:12

A radio-quiet neutron star is a neutron star that does not seem to emit radio emissions, but is still visible to Earth through electromagnetic radiation...

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Fast fission
Sabtu, 2025-08-16 18:17:45

high-energy neutron, called a fast neutron, and splits. Most fissionable materials need thermal neutrons, which move more slowly. Fast neutron reactors use...

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Void coefficient
Minggu, 2025-12-14 21:58:33

fission. Thermal neutrons are more easily absorbed by fissile nuclei than fast neutrons, so a neutron moderator that slows neutrons will increase the...

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European Spallation Source
Selasa, 2026-04-28 14:41:51

and magnetic properties, which are more challenging to probe with other neutron sources in terms of lengths and time scales. The research facility is located...

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Fission product yield
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 18:23:36

do not change after completion of neutron emission by a few neutron-rich initial fission products (delayed neutrons), with half-life measured in seconds...

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Lyle Benjamin Borst
Kamis, 2025-05-22 11:03:55

Manhattan Project, and worked with Ernest O. Wollan to conduct neutron scattering and neutron diffraction studies. Borst was born on November 24, 1912, in...

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We Got the Neutron Bomb
Sabtu, 2024-11-02 22:25:57

We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk is an oral history of the Los Angeles punk scene written by Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen. It was...

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John A. Davis
Minggu, 2026-05-31 16:03:12

Davis is best known for directing the Nickelodeon animated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for the Best...

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Wolf Ruvinskis
Senin, 2026-04-20 22:59:03

Andrés Menchaca Neutrón Movie series as Neutrón Neutrón contra los asesinos del karate / Neutron vs the Karate Killers (1965) Neutrón contra el criminal...

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Tetraneutron
Jumat, 2025-10-03 17:39:52

a lifetime around 10−22 seconds. The stability of this cluster of four neutrons is not supported by current models of nuclear forces. Recent empirical...

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Albert Einstein
Senin, 2026-06-08 07:32:20

waves came in the 1970s through observation of a pair of closely orbiting neutron stars, PSR B1913+16. The explanation for the decay in their orbital period...

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Electron neutrino
Senin, 2026-04-20 05:30:13

Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, in which he proposed the electron "neutron" [neutrino] as a potential solution to solve the problem of the continuous...

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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (video game)
Rabu, 2026-04-22 08:09:05

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a video game based on the 2001 Nickelodeon movie of the same name for Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, and...

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Stellar black hole
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:37:05

the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff (TOV) limit for neutron-degenerate matter, the end product is a neutron star. If the collapsing star has a mass exceeding...

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Gamma-ray burst
Kamis, 2026-04-23 07:53:28

supernova or superluminous supernova as a high-mass star implodes to form a neutron star or a black hole. Short-duration (sGRB) events are a subclass of GRB...

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Bonner sphere
Jumat, 2022-07-15 06:34:53

spectrum of a neutron beam. The method was first described in 1960 by Rice University's Bramblett, Ewing and Tom W. Bonner and employs thermal neutron detectors...

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Non-contact force
Minggu, 2025-03-09 18:15:18

and acts equally between a proton and a proton, a neutron and a neutron, and a proton and a neutron. The strong nuclear force is the strongest force in...

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Induced radioactivity
Jumat, 2026-01-16 16:26:04

positron. Neutron activation is the main form of induced radioactivity. It occurs when an atomic nucleus captures one or more free neutrons. This new...

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High Flux Isotope Reactor
Jumat, 2025-06-13 01:40:46

reactor-based sources of neutrons for condensed matter physics research in the United States, and it has one of the highest steady-state neutron fluxes of any research...

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Magic number (physics)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 08:55:17

nuclear physics, a magic number is a number of nucleons (either protons or neutrons, separately) such that they are arranged into complete shells within the...

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Lead-cooled fast reactor
Rabu, 2026-04-15 19:58:23

low neutron absorption and relatively low melting points. Neutrons are slowed less by interaction with these heavy nuclei (thus not being neutron moderators)...

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Polonium-210
Rabu, 2026-05-27 12:47:03

s-process is terminated by the decay of 210Po, as the neutron flux is insufficient to lead to further neutron captures in the short lifetime of 210Po. Instead...

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Milky Way
Minggu, 2026-05-31 22:48:27

(1012) stars. The Milky Way may contain ten billion white dwarfs, a billion neutron stars, and a hundred million stellar black holes. Filling the space between...

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Cobalt-60
Jumat, 2026-05-15 04:47:31

5.2714 years. It is produced artificially in nuclear reactors through neutron activation of 59 Co (of which natural cobalt consists entirely). Measurable...

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Quark-nova
Kamis, 2026-04-09 01:16:55

resulting from the conversion of a neutron star to a quark star. Analogous to a supernova heralding the birth of a neutron star, a quark nova signals the...

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Spin (physics)
Senin, 2026-06-01 16:50:32

particular, the neutron possesses a non-zero magnetic moment despite being electrically neutral. This fact was an early indication that the neutron is not an...

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Isotopes of caesium
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:55:02

because 134Xe is stable) as a fission product and via neutron capture from nonradioactive 133Cs (neutron capture cross section 29 barns), which is a common...

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Radioactive waste
Rabu, 2026-05-13 14:08:22

these are neutron absorbers, called neutron poisons in this context. These eventually build up to a level where they absorb so many neutrons that the chain...

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Photosphere
Senin, 2026-05-18 23:50:33

50% of light will escape without being scattered. Stars, except perhaps neutron stars, have no solid or liquid surface. Therefore, the photosphere is typically...

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Weak interaction
Senin, 2026-06-01 14:23:10

elementary (e.g., electrons or quarks) or composite (e.g., protons or neutrons), although at the deepest levels, all weak interactions ultimately are...

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Cold fusion
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:47:15

reported measuring small amounts of nuclear reaction byproducts, including neutrons and tritium, both of which are produced by fusion of deuterium, found in...

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Helium-3
Jumat, 2026-05-22 12:40:35

with two protons and one neutron (in contrast to the more common isotope, helium-4, which has two protons and two neutrons). Helium-3 and hydrogen-1...

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PSR J1614−2230
Kamis, 2025-12-18 23:52:53

Experiment Telescope catalog. PSR J1614–2230 is a millisecond pulsar, a type of neutron star, that spins on its axis roughly 317.37 times per second, corresponding...

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Castle Bravo
Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:36:07

mediated by a neutron and tritium) it produces two alpha particles. The reaction would produce high-energy neutrons with 14 MeV, and its neutronicity was estimated...

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Mass number
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 13:39:23

atomic mass number or nucleon number, is the total number of protons and neutrons (together known as nucleons) in an atomic nucleus. It is approximately...

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Neutron-antineutron oscillations
Jumat, 2026-06-05 18:32:45

Neutron-antineutron oscillations are a hypothetical process in which a neutron can spontaneously convert into an antineutron and vice versa. This process...

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NGC 4993
Kamis, 2026-04-23 08:14:05

NGC 4993 Group. NGC 4993 was the site of GW170817, a collision of two neutron stars, the first astronomical event detected in both electromagnetic and...

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Positron emission
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 20:04:10

decay, in which a proton inside a radionuclide nucleus is converted into a neutron while releasing a positron and an electron neutrino (νe). Positron emission...

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Phases of ice
Kamis, 2026-05-28 08:55:43

the plausibility of a 'deep-glassy state' scenario based on neutron diffraction and neutron inelastic scattering experiments. Based on their experimental...

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Exotic star
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:58:53

star composed of exotic matter (something not made of electrons, protons, neutrons, or muons), and balanced against gravitational collapse by degeneracy pressure...

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MOX fuel
Senin, 2025-07-28 02:43:03

heavier isotopes due to neutron capture, primarily by uranium-238. Most of the fuel mass in a reactor is uranium-238. By neutron capture and two successive...

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X-ray binary
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 21:52:13

the other component, called the accretor, which can be a white dwarf, neutron star or black hole. The infalling matter releases gravitational potential...

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Tamper (nuclear weapon)
Selasa, 2026-04-28 21:43:35

supercritical longer. Often the same layer serves both as tamper and as neutron reflector. The weapon disintegrates as the reaction proceeds, and this...

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Isotopes of samarium
Kamis, 2026-05-07 02:46:24

instability is due to having 84 neutrons (two more than 82, which is a magic number corresponding to a stable neutron configuration), and so it may emit...

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QCD matter
Jumat, 2026-05-22 07:57:54

quark matter called the quark–gluon plasma (QGP). Compact stars (neutron stars). A neutron star is much cooler than 1012 K, but gravitational collapse has...

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Jimmy Carter
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:27:50

shaped his views on atomic energy and led him to cease the development of a neutron bomb. In March 1953, Carter began a six-month nuclear power plant operation...

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Radiation hardening
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:22:26

including total ionizing dose (TID), enhanced low dose rate effects (ELDRS), neutron and proton displacement damage, and single event effects (SEEs). Environments...

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Speed of light
Jumat, 2026-05-01 10:48:39

P.; et al. (2017). "Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A". The Astrophysical Journal Letters...

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Isotopes of lithium
Senin, 2026-04-27 02:18:39

is exposed to slow neutrons, tritium is produced with nearly 100% yield; contrarily, 7Li is almost unreactive with slow neutrons. Both 6Li and 7Li isotopes...

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Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor
Rabu, 2026-03-04 10:44:30

structural biology using neutron beams and its sophisticated suite of experimental equipment Analysis of minerals and samples using the neutron activation technique...

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LIGO
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:40:11

coalescences of neutron stars or black holes), supernova explosions of massive stars (which form neutron stars and black holes), accreting neutron stars, rotations...

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Haigerloch atomic pile
Kamis, 2026-04-23 01:17:26

finite nuclear chain reaction was induced via bombardment of the fuel by a neutron source and measured. Natural uranium was used as fuel and heavy water,...

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Fermium
Minggu, 2026-03-01 15:53:13

100. It is an actinide and the heaviest element that can be formed by neutron bombardment of lighter elements, and hence the last element that can be...

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Isotopes of californium
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 16:55:51

discovery database High neutron cross-section, tends to absorb neutrons Most common isotope High neutron emitter, average 3.7 neutrons per fission Theoretically...

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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Minggu, 2026-06-07 14:54:53

weapons, Greenhouse George and Ivy Mike.Los Alamos subsequently produced the neutron bomb. The lab was involved in the origins of supercomputers, to further...

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:57:28

uranium-235 were needed for a bomb instead of tons of natural uranium and a neutron moderator like heavy water. Consequently, the work was accelerated, first...

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IGR J11014−6103
Jumat, 2025-04-04 22:17:44

nebula trailing the neutron star which has the longest relativistic jet observed in the Milky Way galaxy. The object consists of a neutron star with a radius...

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Moon
Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:59:15

dissipated into space. Ionizing radiation from cosmic rays, their resulting neutron radiation, and the Sun results in an average radiation level of 1.369 millisieverts...

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North Carolina State University reactor program
Kamis, 2026-03-05 10:53:23

primary research purpose of the reactor is to provide a neutron source for activities such as Neutron activation analysis. For example, cobalt-60 irradiators...

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Plutonium-240
Senin, 2026-04-06 09:10:36

Pu-240) is an isotope of plutonium formed when plutonium-239 captures a neutron without undergoing fission. The detection of its spontaneous fission led...

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Gamma-ray burst progenitors
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 22:59:23

mergers of compact binary systems like neutron stars, which was confirmed by the GW170817 observation of a neutron star merger and a kilonova. As of 2007...

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Neutron Star (short story collection)
Senin, 2026-01-19 01:52:49

Neutron Star is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Larry Niven, published in April 1968. The individual stories were published...

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Calvera (neutron star)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 10:02:58

source in the constellation Ursa Minor, identified in 2007 as an isolated neutron star. It is one of the hottest and closest of its kind to Earth. It is...

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FERMIAC
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:33:57

distribution of neutrons, the goal of the process is to develop numerous "neutron genealogies", or models of the behavior of individual neutrons, including...

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Xenon
Selasa, 2026-06-02 01:14:34

product of nuclear fission), and is the most significant (and unwanted) neutron absorber in nuclear reactors. Xenon was discovered in England by the Scottish...

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Fermi's interaction
Selasa, 2025-12-09 08:29:16

Feynman diagram). This interaction explains beta decay of a neutron by direct coupling of a neutron with an electron, a neutrino (later determined to be an...

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Implosion (mechanical process)
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 00:46:40

and becomes a neutron star or black hole; the outer layers of the original star fall inwards and may rebound off the newly created neutron star (if one...

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Radioisotope thermoelectric generator
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:29:33

radioisotope is also used in alpha-neutron reactions with a suitable element such as beryllium. This way a long-lived neutron source is produced. Because the...

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Sodium-cooled fast reactor
Senin, 2026-06-08 07:55:38

A sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) is a fast neutron reactor cooled by liquid sodium. The use of sodium as a coolant enables high power density and low-pressure...

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State of matter
Kamis, 2026-06-04 22:54:38

conglomeration of neutrons. Normally free neutrons outside an atomic nucleus will decay with a half life of approximately 10 minutes, but in a neutron star, the...

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Type II supernova
Jumat, 2026-05-29 14:44:53

short-range repulsive neutron-neutron interactions, mediated by the strong force, as well as by degeneracy pressure of neutrons, at a density comparable...

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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Minggu, 2026-06-07 08:08:17

astrophysics, including the theory of cosmic ray showers, and the theory of neutron stars and black holes. In 1941, Oppenheimer was briefed about nuclear weapon...

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Gravitational collapse
Senin, 2026-04-06 05:35:20

degeneracy pressure Neutron stars, in which gravity is opposed by neutron degeneracy pressure and short-range repulsive neutron–neutron interactions mediated...

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High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 01:34:04

The High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor (HANARO; Korean: 하나로) is a 30 MW multi-purpose research reactor located at Daejeon, Republic of Korea...

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Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae
Selasa, 2026-03-31 01:49:39

This list is a historical timeline of events related to neutron stars, pulsars, supernovae, and white dwarfs. This list is mainly about the development...

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Geoffrey L. Greene
Minggu, 2025-06-01 19:33:35

Geoffrey L. Greene is an American neutron physicist. Greene received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1971 and his doctorate from Harvard...

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Interacting boson model
Minggu, 2025-12-28 05:36:17

model (IBM) is a model in nuclear physics in which nucleons (protons or neutrons) pair up, essentially acting as a single particle with boson properties...

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Double electron capture
Senin, 2025-10-27 04:25:38

in the nucleus, forming two neutrons and two neutrinos. Since the protons are changed to neutrons, the number of neutrons increases by two, while the...

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CDF-S XT1
Rabu, 2026-05-20 21:37:50

the collapse of a massive star, the merging of two neutron stars or even the merging of a neutron star and a black hole. The event occurred at a distance...

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Hydrogen–deuterium exchange
Selasa, 2025-09-09 05:15:24

been monitored by the methods: NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and neutron crystallography. Each of these methods have their advantages and drawbacks...

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Thorium
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:03:49

heavy seed nuclei such as 56Fe rapidly capture neutrons, running up against the neutron drip line, as neutrons are captured much faster than the resulting...

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Common envelope jets supernova
Senin, 2026-03-02 09:22:22

the merger of a giant or supergiant star with a compact star such as a neutron star or a black hole. As the compact star plunges into the envelope of...

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Demining
Kamis, 2026-05-28 17:14:25

landmines can also be detected directly using nuclear quadrupole resonance and neutron probes. Detection and removal of landmines is a dangerous activity, and...

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Ernest Rutherford
Rabu, 2026-05-20 13:30:47

Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1919. Under his leadership, the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932. In the same year, the first controlled...

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Pit (nuclear weapon)
Minggu, 2026-04-05 09:05:45

of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it. Early pits were spherical, while most...

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Pulsar kick
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 17:17:06

A pulsar kick is the name of the phenomenon that often causes a neutron star to move with a different, usually substantially greater, velocity than its...

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Institut Laue–Langevin
Jumat, 2026-03-13 02:22:34

metals. Neutron diffraction Small angle neutron scattering Neutron reflectometry Inelastic neutron scattering Neutron triple-axis spectrometry Neutron time-of-flight...

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Semi-empirical mass formula
Selasa, 2026-05-05 15:56:40

approximate the mass of an atomic nucleus from its number of protons and neutrons. As the name suggests, it is based partly on theory and partly on empirical...

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Atomic form factor
Jumat, 2024-11-22 01:39:54

on the nature of the incident radiation, typically X-ray, electron or neutron. The common feature of all form factors is that they involve a Fourier...

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GW190425
Jumat, 2026-02-13 23:52:19

galaxy UGC 10667. The signal could be result of a collision of two neutron stars, a neutron star and a low-mass black hole, or two low-mass black holes with...

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Radiological warfare
Selasa, 2026-03-03 04:27:12

form of fission products and neutron-activated surface material. This fallout is incorporated into military planning. Neutron bombs are designed to maximize...

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Bragg's law
Jumat, 2026-01-09 05:18:48

for X-rays, but it also applies to all types of matter waves including neutron and electron waves if there are a large number of atoms, as well as to...

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Neutristor
Rabu, 2025-01-15 08:35:32

A neutristor is a compact neutron generator made using solid-state electronics, invented at Sandia National Laboratories. Its primary purpose is to act...

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Rabu, 2026-04-29 18:52:00

throughout the Solar System. Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) The Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector provides measurements, creates maps, and...

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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Selasa, 2026-05-26 15:11:30

synchrophasotron (4 GeV). The site has a neutron fast-pulse reactor (1,500MW pulse) with nineteen associated instruments receiving neutron beams. The Joint Institute...

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Doctor Who
Rabu, 2026-06-03 03:53:50

originally written, the Daleks and Thals were the victims of an alien neutron bomb attack, but Nation later dropped the aliens and made the Daleks the...

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Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
Rabu, 2026-04-15 14:48:36

fuel salts and the breeding of thorium into uranium-233 in the thermal neutron spectrum. The LFTR concept was first investigated at the Oak Ridge National...

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Nuclear fuel
Rabu, 2026-05-27 12:50:05

fissile material, which can undergo a fission chain reaction driven by neutrons. Uranium-235 is the only naturally-occurring fissile isotope, found mixed...

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Wigner effect
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 07:34:12

atoms in a solid caused by neutron radiation. Any solid can display the Wigner effect. The effect is of most concern in neutron moderators, such as graphite...

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Nuclear reactor core
Senin, 2026-02-16 15:47:17

hafnium or cadmium that readily capture neutrons. When the control rods are lowered into the core, they absorb neutrons, which thus cannot take part in the...

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Decay chain
Selasa, 2026-05-12 09:03:21

uranium, has an isotope with 144 neutrons (236U) and it decays into an isotope of element 90, thorium, with 142 neutrons (232Th). The daughter isotope may...

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Neutron backscattering
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:07:25

Neutron backscattering is one of several inelastic neutron scattering techniques. Backscattering from monochromator and analyzer crystals is used to achieve...

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Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons
Kamis, 2025-09-25 06:45:12

Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument is an experiment mounted on the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover. It is a pulsed sealed-tube neutron source...

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Neutron Science Laboratory
Minggu, 2026-05-17 07:07:03

The Neutron Science Laboratory (NSL) is situated within the North Campus of the University of Michigan and houses various neutron and gamma-ray sources...

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Gun-type fission weapon
Rabu, 2026-05-13 15:14:01

distance through which daughter neutrons must travel has so many mean free paths it becomes very probable most neutrons will find uranium nuclei to collide...

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Altitude SEE Test European Platform
Senin, 2026-05-25 00:31:03

metrology. ASTEP is also permanently equipped with a neutron monitor (referenced as the Plateau de Bure Neutron Monitor, PdBNM) and a muon monitor (Plateau de...

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Penelope Jane Brown
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 18:42:21

Penelope Jane Brown is a neutron crystallographer and served as Senior Scientist at the Institut Laue–Langevin until 2012. In 2002 she became the first...

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Rietveld refinement
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:39:09

Rietveld for use in the characterisation of crystalline materials. The neutron and X-ray diffraction of powder samples results in a pattern characterised...

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James H. Coon
Kamis, 2026-03-05 10:41:09

Laboratory, made significant contributions to the science and study of neutron interactions. He worked on the Vera satellite project. James Huntington...

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Versatile Test Reactor
Kamis, 2026-04-23 20:46:22

Reactor (VTR) was a project by the U.S. Department of Energy to build a fast-neutron test reactor by 2026. Funding for the project was canceled in 2022. After...

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Radionuclide identification device
Minggu, 2025-11-30 23:07:58

reduces the kinetic energy of the neutron (slowing down the neutron). Moderated neutrons are commonly called thermal neutrons, and they provide a high probability...

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Investigations into the Chernobyl disaster
Minggu, 2026-01-04 06:51:40

solid graphite as a neutron moderator to slow down the neutrons, and the cooling water acted as a neutron absorber. Thus, neutrons are moderated by the...

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CP violating moments
Jumat, 2026-04-10 11:09:35

moments include permanent Electric dipole moments (EDM) of electrons, neutrons, and atoms. Searches for these moments is one of the most active frontiers...

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Project Y
Rabu, 2026-05-27 12:42:18

Serber of the University of Illinois examined the problems of neutron diffusion—how neutrons moved in a nuclear chain reaction—and hydrodynamics—how the...

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Uranium-234
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:42:43

has a neutron-capture cross section of about 100 barns for thermal neutrons, and about 700 barns for its resonance integral—the average of neutrons having...

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Pycnonuclear fusion
Selasa, 2026-06-02 09:45:06

outside of extremely dense systems, neutron-rich and free electron-rich environments, such as the inner crust of a neutron star. A feature of pycnonuclear...

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PSR J0740+6620
Selasa, 2025-09-30 22:34:08

PSR J0740+6620 is a neutron star in a binary system with a white dwarf, located 4,600 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2019...

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Paul Scherrer Institute
Kamis, 2026-04-02 03:10:02

and marketing of X-ray detectors. SwissNeutronics AG in Klingnau, which sells optical components for neutron research facilities, was founded as early...

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Calcium
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:05:36

first "classically stable" nuclides with a 6-neutron or 8-neutron excess respectively. Though extremely neutron-rich for such a light element, 48Ca is very...

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Jumat, 2026-05-29 08:46:52

""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison (1966) "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven (1967) "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan...

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Star
Minggu, 2026-05-31 04:25:14

fusion ceases and its core becomes a stellar remnant: a white dwarf, a neutron star, or—if it is sufficiently massive—a black hole. Stellar nucleosynthesis...

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Neutral particle oscillation
Senin, 2026-05-11 00:37:56

investigated in 1954 by Murray Gell-mann and Abraham Pais. For example, a neutron cannot transmute into an antineutron as that would violate the conservation...

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Uranium-236
Rabu, 2026-04-08 00:56:45

or U-236) is an isotope of uranium that is neither fissile with thermal neutrons, nor very good fertile material, but is generally considered a nuisance...

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Werner Heisenberg
Kamis, 2026-06-04 17:59:41

after the discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932, Heisenberg submitted the first of three papers on his neutron-proton model of the nucleus...

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SN 1987A
Jumat, 2026-04-24 15:16:59

supernovae. In 2019, indirect evidence for the presence of a collapsed neutron star within the remnants of SN 1987A was discovered using the Atacama Large...

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Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility
Jumat, 2025-10-24 23:12:27

linear accelerator and neutron source, located at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center in Yavne, Israel. Its highly configurable neutron spectrum and produced...

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James Lattimer
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 11:15:13

astrophysicist who works on the equation of state for dense nuclear matter and neutron stars. He is currently a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University...

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Astrophysical jet
Kamis, 2026-05-28 18:20:55

with many types of high-energy astronomical sources, such as black holes, neutron stars and pulsars. Their causes are not yet fully understood, but they...

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PSR J0348+0432
Selasa, 2026-05-19 22:32:08

Telescope in a drift-scan survey. In 2013, a mass measurement for this neutron star was announced: slightly over two times the mass of the Sun (2.01±0...

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Prussian blue
Kamis, 2026-05-28 23:34:55

neutron diffraction studies. 2004. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126/16472-16477. doi:10.1021/ja0465451. Neutron diffraction and neutron vibrational...

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Shutdown (nuclear reactor)
Kamis, 2026-02-05 19:30:43

an excess of neutron poisons in the reactor vessel. Neutron poisons are chemical byproducts of the nuclear reaction which absorb neutrons, lowering reactivity...

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(n-p) reaction
Kamis, 2025-04-10 05:23:24

example of a nuclear reaction. It is the reaction which occurs when a neutron enters a nucleus and a proton leaves the nucleus simultaneously. For example...

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List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes
Senin, 2026-04-06 23:15:10

Handicap And Then... 44 5 "Mr. Neutron" 28 November 1974 (1974-11-28) Post-Box Ceremony Mr. Neutron F.E.A.R. / Mr. Neutron Is Missing! Teddy Salad Secretary...

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Spall
Senin, 2026-04-27 14:01:22

spallation; neutron scattering instruments generate neutrons by bombarding a uranium (or other) target with a stream of atoms, and the neutrons ejected from...

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Nuclear matter
Kamis, 2026-02-12 05:13:45

Nuclear matter is an idealized system of interacting nucleons (protons and neutrons) that exists in several phases of exotic matter that, as of yet, are not...

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Sweden
Kamis, 2026-06-04 07:15:19

ESS will give an approximately 30 times stronger neutron beam than any of today's existing neutron source installations. The MAX IV, costing some SEK...

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Oppenheimer–Snyder model
Selasa, 2026-05-12 07:54:01

were the neutron stars of Fritz Zwicky rather than the "neutron cores" of Lev Landau. But while Zwicky did introduce the notion of neutron stars, much...

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Stellar collision
Minggu, 2025-12-14 07:00:09

star, or "dead", with fusion no longer taking place. White dwarf stars, neutron stars, black holes, main sequence stars, giant stars, and supergiants are...

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VT 1137-0337
Jumat, 2025-10-24 08:08:57

pulsar type fast spinning neutron star. The neutron star left at the center of VT 1137-0337 is fast spinning pulsar type neutron star that has a strong magnetic...

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2002 Kids' Choice Awards
Rabu, 2026-03-11 21:35:04

"The Secrets of the Jimmy Neutron Movie", a special preview to the then-upcoming series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, aired after the...

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The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour
Senin, 2026-06-01 18:28:08

specials between the animated television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius and The Fairly OddParents. Consisting of The Jimmy Timmy Power...

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Little Boy
Senin, 2026-06-08 01:32:42

tamper and neutron reflector of tungsten carbide and steel, both materials having a combined mass of 2,300 kilograms (5,100 lb). Neutron initiators inside...

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Journal of Neutron Research
Minggu, 2025-01-05 23:45:36

specialisation: Research Science with Neutrons Neutron Instrumentation and Techniques Reactor/Spallation Neutron Source Technology Neutron Simulation Tools e.g. McStas...

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Spin echo small angle neutron scattering
Senin, 2025-10-06 17:17:57

Spin echo small angle neutron scattering (SESANS) measures structures from around 20 to 2000 nm in size. The information is presented as a real-space...

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Dragon's Egg
Senin, 2026-05-18 05:14:29

by American writer Robert L. Forward. In the story, Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited...

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Breeding blanket
Kamis, 2025-10-16 01:52:09

in nuclear engineering to transmute quantities of an element, using the neutron flux from a fission reactor or fusion reactor. In the fission context,...

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Slovakia
Minggu, 2026-06-07 19:00:04

October 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2026. "Slovakia – from black hole to neutron star". EUobserver. 29 August 2018. Archived from the original on 17 November...

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Radiation portal monitor
Selasa, 2025-11-04 03:23:54

incorporate a neutron detection technology. The vast majority of all neutron detectors deployed in RPMs to date relies on He-3 tubes surrounded by neutron moderators...

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GW230529
Jumat, 2026-01-16 21:52:20

2023, produced as the result of the merger of a low-mass black hole and a neutron star. It is the first event published by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration...

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Isotopes of xenon
Kamis, 2026-05-14 17:36:22

58 μs, and is the heaviest known nuclide with equal numbers of protons and neutrons. Of known isomers, the longest-lived is 131mXe with a half-life of 11.95...

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Delta baryon
Kamis, 2025-12-04 19:23:58

the same constituent quarks that make up the more familiar protons and neutrons. Four closely related Δ baryons exist: Δ++  (constituent quarks: uuu),...

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Mikhail Yuryevich Tikhonov
Senin, 2026-05-11 09:20:26

such as Chris McClean in Total Drama, Nick Dean and Hugh Neutron in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and more. Tikhonov was born in Moscow, RSFSR...

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Champagne Holocaust
Selasa, 2025-08-05 22:34:37

Champagne Holocaust – Standard edition track listing No. Title Length 1. "Auto Neutron" 4:56 2. "Is It Raining in Your Mouth?" 3:52 3. "Who Shot Lee Oswald?"...

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Prompt gamma neutron activation analysis
Senin, 2022-07-25 01:35:14

Prompt-gamma neutron activation analysis (PGAA) is a very widely applicable technique for determining the presence and amount of many elements simultaneously...

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Clean and Environmentally Safe Advanced Reactor
Selasa, 2025-09-02 05:41:38

precisely, Filippone claims it can be used to fine-tune neutron fluxes to ensure that neutrons are moving with an optimal energy profile to split 238 92U...

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Household Gods (band)
Jumat, 2026-05-22 10:09:09

David Pajo (Slint, Zwan, Papa M), Vern Rumsey (Unwound), Conan Neutron (Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends and Replicator), and Lauren K Newman. (LKN...

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Fukushima nuclear accident
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:41:30

assembly cladding are made from a zirconium alloy (Zircaloy) for its low neutron cross section. At normal operating temperatures (~300 °C (572 °F)), it...

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Neutron irradiation damage
Kamis, 2023-03-16 08:04:57

Neutron irradiation damage refers to material changes caused by high neutron flux, typically in a nuclear reactor after many years. Graphite may shrink...

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Maurice Goldhaber
Selasa, 2026-05-19 15:30:59

the discovery that deuteron is made of a neutron and a proton, for first measuring the mass of the neutron and for th Goldhaber experiment [fr] that...

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Clifford Shull
Selasa, 2026-04-14 19:24:36

beam of neutrons is directed at a given material, the neutrons bounce off, or are scattered by, atoms in the sample being investigated. The neutrons' directions...

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University of Missouri Research Reactor Center
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:03:40

MURR contributes to research in boron neutron capture therapy, neutron scattering and neutron interferometry, neutron transmutation doping of semiconductor...

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George Volkoff
Senin, 2026-03-09 13:27:35

academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered. He was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1914...

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Astronomical radio source
Rabu, 2026-04-29 02:05:07

remains speculative. Possibilities include a black hole-neutron star collision, a neutron star-neutron star collision, a black hole-black hole collision, or...

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TRIGA
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:37:36

thermal neutrons. Like most reactors, TRIGA is a thermal-neutron reactor in which fast neutrons produced by fission are slowed by a neutron moderator...

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Canadian Neutron Beam Centre
Jumat, 2025-05-23 04:54:36

The NRC Canadian Neutron Beam Centre (CNBC) was Canada's national user facility that enabled researchers to use neutron beams as tools for world-class...

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United States Department of Energy National Laboratories
Selasa, 2026-04-28 05:44:01

materials: five x-ray light sources, five nanoscale research centers, and two neutron scattering centers. "BES User Facilities". US Department of Energy Office...

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X-ray pulsar
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 23:06:58

companion) in orbit around a magnetized neutron star. The magnetic field strength at the surface of the neutron star is typically about 108 tesla, over...

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Plutonium-242
Senin, 2026-04-06 09:10:37

for thermal neutron capture; and it takes three neutron absorptions to become another fissile isotope (curium-245) and then one more neutron to undergo...

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Planet Sheen
Kamis, 2026-04-30 06:12:47

Oedekerk. It is a spin-off of the Jimmy Neutron franchise, the second sequel television series of the film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and also its sequel to...

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Quark–gluon plasma
Minggu, 2026-05-24 01:03:33

plasma (QGP) occurs at energy densities high enough to melt the protons and neutrons that make up the nuclei of normal matter. It is a very low viscosity liquid...

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Maria reactor
Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:10:04

includes the production of radioisotopes, research using neutron beams, neutron therapy, and neutron activation analysis. It operates for about 4,000 hours...

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Crab Pulsar
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 11:42:38

The Crab Pulsar (PSR B0531+21 or Baade's Star) is a relatively young neutron star. The star is the central star in the Crab Nebula, a remnant of the supernova...

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Strangelet
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 15:36:45

each composed of a number of up and down quarks, confined into triplets (neutrons and protons). According to the strange matter hypothesis, strangelets are...

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Hypernova
Selasa, 2026-04-28 07:03:27

producing gamma-ray bursts is induced gravitational collapse, where a neutron star is triggered to collapse into a black hole by the core collapse of...

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Actinide
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 20:27:32

elements with neutrons; (2) irradiation with accelerated charged particles. The first method is more important for applications, as only neutron irradiation...

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Anton Zeilinger
Minggu, 2026-01-11 21:59:37

received a doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1971, with a thesis on "Neutron depolarization measurements on a Dy-single crystal" under Helmut Rauch...

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Lists of astronomical objects
Kamis, 2026-05-07 16:47:48

List of the most distant astronomical objects List of neutron stars List of most massive neutron stars List of resolved circumstellar disks List of brightest...

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LMC X-2
Senin, 2026-02-09 10:07:04

ranging from 0.3×1037 and 6×1038 ergs/s. This binary system consist of a neutron star accreating matter from an orbiting low-mass blue star. Its high luminosity...

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Isospin
Rabu, 2026-04-22 07:22:03

momentum (in particular, in the way it couples; for example, a proton–neutron pair can be coupled either in a state of total isospin 1 or in one of 0)...

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Millisecond pulsar
Kamis, 2026-05-07 07:20:35

the origin of millisecond pulsars is that they are old, rapidly rotating neutron stars that have been spun up or "recycled" through accretion of matter...

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Triple-alpha process
Rabu, 2026-04-22 22:52:07

sometimes up to 300 Hz. Some neutron stars have been measured with such an intensity modulation at 600 Hz. A suggested origin is neutron stars which rotate at...

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Grazing-incidence small-angle scattering
Selasa, 2026-05-19 17:24:08

(grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering, GISAXS) or neutrons (grazing-incidence small-angle neutron scattering, GISANS). GISAS combines the accessible...

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Stellar nucleosynthesis
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:53:59

in 1954. Further advances were made, especially to nucleosynthesis by neutron capture of the elements heavier than iron, by Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge...

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Nuclear graphite
Senin, 2026-01-05 20:05:37

fission process to chain react, the neutrons created by uranium fission must be slowed down by interacting with a neutron moderator (an element with a low...

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Samarium
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:01:31

breast cancer and osteosarcoma. Another isotope, samarium-149, is a strong neutron absorber and so is added to control rods of nuclear reactors. It also forms...

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Science
Senin, 2026-06-08 03:29:27

Angelova, S. V.; et al. (2017). "Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger". The Astrophysical Journal. 848 (2): L12. arXiv:1710.05833...

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Lime (transportation company)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 18:05:24

Neutron Holdings, Inc., doing business under the name Lime, formerly LimeBike, is an American transportation company based in San Francisco, California...

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Theory of relativity
Rabu, 2026-04-01 21:41:23

and astrophysics predicted extraordinary astronomical phenomena such as neutron stars, black holes, and gravitational waves. Albert Einstein published...

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Neutron time-of-flight scattering
Senin, 2026-04-20 14:51:09

In neutron time-of-flight scattering, a form of inelastic neutron scattering, the initial position and velocity of a pulse of neutrons are fixed, and...

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Research reactor
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 00:22:46

reactors are nuclear fission-based nuclear reactors that serve primarily as a neutron source. They are also called non-power reactors, in contrast to power reactors...

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Isotopes of sodium
Minggu, 2026-04-26 00:59:36

neutron radiation exposure (e.g., from a nuclear criticality accident) converts some of the stable 23 Na in human blood plasma to 24 Na. The neutron radiation...

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Supernova nucleosynthesis
Kamis, 2025-12-04 04:29:24

followed by oxygen-16, neon-20 and so on, each time adding 2 protons and 2 neutrons to the growing nucleus. A rapid final explosive burning is caused by the...

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Patrick Stewart
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:45:02

voiced roles in The Pagemaster (1994), The Prince of Egypt (1998), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), Chicken Little (2005), Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), and...

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The Basketball Diaries (film)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 08:16:30

player who regularly gets into mischief with his friends Pedro, Mickey and Neutron on the streets of New York City and at school. Outside of basketball, Jim...

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Hybrid star
Senin, 2025-06-09 05:13:58

a neutron star Hybrid-chromosphere star, an evolved star with a hot corona and cool stellar wind A variable star that is a hybrid pulsator A neutron star...

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International Space Station
Senin, 2026-06-08 06:22:55

System. ISS-based astronomy telescopes and experiments include SOLAR, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, the Calorimetric Electron Telescope...

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Uranium-232
Senin, 2026-04-06 09:10:39

contaminated with it more difficult to handle. Production of 233U (through the neutron irradiation of 232Th) invariably produces small amounts of 232U as an impurity...

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Phyllis Diller
Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:51:30

Mad Monster Party?, the Queen in A Bug's Life, Granny Neutron in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Thelma Griffin in Family Guy. Diller...

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Curium
Selasa, 2026-03-31 10:18:59

1947. Most curium is produced by bombarding uranium or plutonium with neutrons in nuclear reactors – one tonne of spent nuclear fuel contains ~20 grams...

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Stellar rotation
Minggu, 2025-11-30 04:24:34

transfer of angular momentum. A neutron star is a highly dense remnant of a star that is primarily composed of neutrons—a particle that is found in most...

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Hubert E. King Jr.
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:25:07

Research—where he applied techniques including high-pressure experimental methods, neutron scattering, and synchrotron X-ray crystallography to problems in liquids...

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Lee Harvey Oswald
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 23:14:07

bullet was too damaged to run conclusive ballistics studies on it, but neutron activation analysis later showed that it was "extremely likely" that it...

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Nuclear fission product
Sabtu, 2025-07-12 05:52:57

uranium fissions by splitting into two smaller nuclei, along with a few neutrons, the release of heat energy (kinetic energy of the nuclei), and gamma rays...

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Reduced moderation water reactor
Minggu, 2026-03-08 06:58:05

fast neutron reactor, thereby combining the established and proven technology of light water reactors with the desired features of fast neutron reactors...

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Jocelyn Read
Jumat, 2026-05-22 15:42:10

University, Fullerton, known for her research on gravitational waves and neutron stars. She is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and is an...

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Atomic mass
Minggu, 2026-05-03 02:13:59

The atomic mass mostly comes from the combined mass of the protons and neutrons in the nucleus, with minor contributions from the electrons and nuclear...

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Inhour equation
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 00:38:59

_{i}3600}}}}} [Equation 2] ρ = reactivity l*= neutron generation time Tp= reactor period βi= fraction of delayed neutrons of ith kind λi= precursor decay constant...

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List of Marvel Comics characters: N
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:42:04

renamed Neutron in Quasar #33 (April 1992). Neutron appears with other members of the Imperial Guard in Last Planet Standing #1 (July 2006). Neutron appears...

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Glioblastoma
Senin, 2026-06-08 01:10:03

radiosensitizers, and as of 2015[update] a clinical trial was underway. Boron neutron capture therapy has been tested as an alternative treatment for glioblastoma...

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Binary star
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 01:20:53

object that emits little or no electromagnetic radiation, for example a neutron star. The visible star's position is carefully measured and detected to...

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Magnetic proton recoil neutron spectrometer
Minggu, 2025-04-20 23:14:34

Proton Recoil neutron spectrometer is a large high-resolution neutron spectrometer installed at JET. The Magnetic Proton Recoil (MPR) neutron spectrometer...

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Liquid metal cooled reactor
Minggu, 2026-01-18 20:39:49

metal coolant has been applied to both thermal- and fast-neutron reactors. To date, most fast neutron reactors have been liquid metal cooled and so are called...

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Stars in fiction
Rabu, 2026-04-22 17:06:52

stages of stellar evolution have received particular attention: supernovae, neutron stars, and black holes. Stars being depicted as sentient beings—whether...

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Caesium-137
Rabu, 2026-06-03 09:41:05

radioactive source General Symbol 137Cs Names caesium-137 Protons (Z) 55 Neutrons (N) 82 Nuclide data Natural abundance 0 (trace) Half-life (t1/2) 30.04 years...

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List of accelerators in particle physics
Jumat, 2026-04-03 23:51:26

Meyer, H.O.; Rinckel, T.; Snow, W.M. (2005). "Status of the low energy neutron source at Indiana University". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics...

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