What Happens When You Split An Atom?

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When an atom is split, it creates a chain reaction. After the split, additional neutron is released and more atoms split. This will continue until the fuel is gone. You can find more information here: http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/fission/fission.html

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What happens when an atom splits is called nuclear fission. The material of the nucleus is divided into different parts, releasing free neutrons and gamma rays.

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What Happens When You Split An Atom?

When an atom is split, it creates a chain reaction. After the split, additional neutron is released and more atoms split. This will continue until the fuel is gone. You can find more

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How to Split An Atom?

Well, if you want to split an atom you better go out and buy yourself a particle accelerator. You'll have to peel off the atom's electrons much like taking the skin off a banana.

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Who Split the Atom?

In 1932 physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton succeeded in splitting a lithium atom. Two years later Enrico Fermi achieved nuclear fission.

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What happens when an atom is split?

What happens when a atom splits? Nuclear fusion occurs. Edit 1: Not likely that a nuclear fusion would occur... When an atom split, it would produce an energy. equal to its mass squared

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