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Earn 100

Differentiate between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

Important Questions on Thermionic Emission and Radioactivity

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Nuclear power plants use nuclear fission reaction to produce electricity. What is the advantage of producing electricity by fusion reaction?
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What do you mean by Nuclear Fission? Explain with example.
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What do you understand by the term nuclear fusion?
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Why is a nuclear fusion reaction called a thermonuclear reaction?
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Complete the reaction :
He23+H12He24+____+ Energy

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Differentiate between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.
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State the Applications for pure scientific research of x-ray. 
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When four hydrogen nuclei combine to form a helium nucleus in the interior of sun, what amount of energy released per nucleon in this process?
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Name the product of nuclear fission which is utilised to bring about further fission of U92235.
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What are fission and fusion processes? Write their equations.

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The Sun radiates energy in all directions. The average radiation received on the earth surface from the Sun 1.4 kW/m2. The average Earth-Sun distance 1.5×1011 m. The mass lost by the Sun per day is (1 day=86400 s)
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State one difference and one similarity between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear reactor.
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List some Industrial applications of x-ray. 
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Give scientific reason: It is absolutely necessary to control the fission reaction in nuclear power plants.

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Photographs made with X- rays are known as _____.
 
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The hydrogen bomb is based on nuclear _____ reaction.
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In fission of one uranium-235 nucleus, the loss in mass is 0.2 amu. Calculate the energy released.
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In the photochemical process, the rays which provide better resolution are_____.