Science Knowledge Quiz

[smackababy]

Also, Plutonium isn't an available answer.

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Sodium Chloride
Uranium
Nitrogen
Carbon Dioxide

are the choices, pretty easy to narrow down.

The question is the issue. Saying "What is REQUIRED to create a nuclear bomb?" means one of the answer has to be present in all nuclear device, which isn't true.

 

[CZroe]

The question is the issue. Saying "What is REQUIRED to create a nuclear bomb?" means one of the answer has to be present in all nuclear device, which isn't true.

No. Uranium is required to create Plutonium bombs even if it is not inside of it because it is required to make Plutonium. Durr. The question asked what is required to "MAKE" a nuclear bomb and ALL nuclear bombs require it.

I need an oven to make a pizza but an oven doesn't have to be an ingredient in my pizza.

 

[Fenixgoon]

The question is the issue. Saying "What is REQUIRED to create a nuclear bomb?" means one of the answer has to be present in all nuclear device, which isn't true.

both fission and fusion nuclear bombs use uranium.

in the case of a fission bomb, uranium is the fissile material, and through some very fancy science you make it go critical in a very big way.

in a fusion bomb, you actually start a fission reaction, which is contained by a tamper, which then develops the temperatures and pressures required to start a fusion reaction. and then you get your fusion bomb.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb6.htm

 

[Franz316]

12/12 easy peasy

 

[sandorski]

12/12

A couple were close to just being guesses though.

 

[twinrider1]

11/12 -- very little college.

Tides. The correct answer was my first thought, but thought it might be a trick question. Which is really saying that my knowledge on the subject was weak and I was easily made unsure. I knew the right answer in a trivial sense, absorbing it from life, rather than a studied foundation.