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  • 81Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …

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  • 82Nuclear weapon — A bomb redirects here. For other uses, see A bomb (disambiguation). The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 …

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  • 83Nuclear technology — A residential smoke detector is the most familiar piece of nuclear technology for some people Nuclear technology is technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei. Among the notable nuclear technologies are nuclear power, nuclear… …

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  • 84Plutonium — (pronEng|pluːˈtoʊniəm, symbol Pu, atomic number 94) is a rare radioactive, metallic chemical element. The most significant isotope of plutonium is 239Pu, with a half life of 24,100 years; this isotope is fissile and is used in most modern nuclear …

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  • 85Plutonium-239 — Infobox isotope alternate names = symbol =Pu mass number =239 mass = num neutrons =145 num protons =94 abundance = halflife = 24,110 years error halflife = background = #FF6 text color = decay product =Uranium 235 decay symbol =U decay mass =235… …

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  • 86Nuclear reprocessing — technology was developed to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel.[1] Reprocessing serves multiple purposes, whose relative importance has changed over time. Originally reprocessing was used solely to… …

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  • 87Neutron cross section — Science with Neutrons Foundations Neutron temperature Flux · Radiation  …

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  • 88German nuclear energy project — Germany nuclear energy project The German experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch. Active …

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  • 89Isotopes of plutonium — Plutonium (Pu) has no stable isotopes. A standard atomic mass cannot be given.Decay modesTwenty plutonium radioisotopes have been characterized. The most stable are Pu 244, with a half life of 80.8 million years, Pu 242, with a half life of… …

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  • 90Mathematics and Physical Sciences — ▪ 2003 Introduction Mathematics       Mathematics in 2002 was marked by two discoveries in number theory. The first may have practical implications; the second satisfied a 150 year old curiosity.       Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal of the… …

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