Archive for the ‘nuclear chemistry’ Category
Monday, November 6th, 2006
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So we talked about Interaction Barriers previously, but I didn't really mention how one would go about and calculate it. I won't go in details on how it is done, but I'll show you all the equations you'll need to calculate them yourself. The formula I'm using is called the ...
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
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I can't always be gentle with the reader and clearly define and explain in simple English why we are interested in what nuclear chemists find interesting. That being said, I'll jump into this next topic.
I've come across the term, Interaction Barrier, several times now and I've finally figured out what ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
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I can finally talk about 264Sg since Gregorich's paper came out this week. The paper is cool for many reasons and not only because I'm a co-author. The paper recounts the Seaborgium-264 discovery by our group earlier this year from the nuclear reaction of 238U(30Si,4n)264Sg. We observed a total of ...
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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As chemists we view the nucleus as some arbitrary positively charged sphere that keeps the electrons bound to the atom. As a nuclear chemist we know the only nuclei that are perfectly spherical are nuclei that contain a magic number(2,8,20,28,50,82,126) of protons, or neutrons, or both. The other nuclei, not ...
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
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Element 118 has had a sordid past. It literally is a wonderful case study in scientific fraud and how the culture of science always eventually corrects and catches the dishonest individual. Disregarding the juicy aspects of that salacious back-story and moving forward to the recent discovery claim, by Oganessian for ...
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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Trying to calculate a coulomb barrier for a prolate deformed nucleus with a spherical projectile has consumed my attention since Friday; I could not find anyone in the literature who did this without using fancy quantum mechanics. Anyone can look in an E.M. textbook to learn how to calculate a ...
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Calculating the Bass Interaction Barrier
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