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09-25-2021-1936 - Tritium, Trihydrogen Cation (protonated molecular hydrogen), Chicago Pile-1 1942, Pneumoconiosis, etc..

 Tritium (/ˈtrɪtiəm/ or /ˈtrɪʃiəm/, from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos) 'third') or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or 3H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (t, sometimes called a triton) contains one proton and two neutrons, whereas the nucleus of the common isotope hydrogen-1 (protium) contains just one proton, and that of hydrogen-2 (deuterium) contains one proton and one neutron.

Naturally occurring tritium is extremely rare on Earth. The atmosphere has only trace amounts, formed by the interaction of its gases with cosmic rays. It can be artificially produced by irradiating lithium metal or lithium-bearing ceramic pebbles in a nuclear reactor, and is a low-abundance byproduct in normal operations of nuclear reactors.

Tritium is used as the energy source in radioluminescent lights for watches, gun sights, numerous instruments and tools, and even novelty items such as self-illuminating key chains. It is used in a medical and scientific setting as a radioactive tracer. Tritium is also used as a nuclear fusion fuel, along with more abundant deuterium, in tokamak reactors and in hydrogen bombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

The trihydrogen cation or protonated molecular hydrogen is a cation (positive ion) with formula H+
3
, consisting of three hydrogen nuclei (protons) sharing two electrons.

The trihydrogen cation is one of the most abundant ions in the universe. It is stable in the interstellar medium(ISM) due to the low temperature and low density of interstellar space. The role that H+
3
 plays in the gas-phase chemistry of the ISM is unparalleled by any other molecular ion.

The trihydrogen cation is the simplest triatomic molecule, because its two electrons are the only valence electrons in the system. It is also the simplest example of a three-center two-electron bond system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trihydrogen_cation


Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first artificial nuclear reactor. On 2 December 1942, the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1, during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi. The secret development of the reactor was the first major technical achievement for the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to create atomic bombs during World War II. Developed by the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, it was built under the west viewing stands of the original Stagg Field. Although the project's civilian and military leaders had misgivings about the possibility of a disastrous runaway reaction, they trusted Fermi's safety calculations and decided they could carry out the experiment in a densely populated area. Fermi described the reactor as "a crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers".[4]

The reactor was assembled in November 1942, by a team that included Fermi, Leo Szilard (who had previously formulated an idea for non-fission chain reaction), Leona WoodsHerbert L. AndersonWalter ZinnMartin D. Whitaker, and George Weil. The reactor used natural uranium. This required a very large amount of material in order to reach criticality, along with graphite used as a neutron moderator. The reactor contained 45,000 ultra-pure graphite blocks weighing 360 short tons (330 t), and was fueled by 5.4 short tons (4.9 t) of uranium metal and 45 short tons (41 t) of uranium oxide. Unlike most subsequent nuclear reactors, it had no radiation shielding or cooling system as it operated at very low power – about one-half watt.

The pursuit for a reactor had been touched off by concern that Nazi Germany had a substantial scientific lead. The success of Chicago Pile-1 provided the first vivid demonstration of the feasibility of the military use of nuclear energy by the Allies, and the reality of the danger that Nazi Germany could succeed in producing nuclear weapons. Previously, estimates of critical masses had been crude calculations, leading to order-of-magnitude uncertainties about the size of a hypothetical bomb. The successful use of graphite as a moderator paved the way for progress in the Allied effort, whereas the German program languished partly because of the belief that scarce and expensive heavy water would have to be used for that purpose.

In 1943, CP-1 was moved to Red Gate Woods, and reconfigured to become Chicago Pile-2 (CP-2). There, it was operated for research until 1954, when it was dismantled and buried. The stands at Stagg Field were demolished in August 1957; the site is now a National Historic Landmark and a Chicago Landmark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1


Pneumoconiosis is the general term for a class of interstitial lung diseases where inhalation of dusthas caused interstitial fibrosis. Pneumoconiosis often causes restrictive impairment,[1] although diagnosable pneumoconiosis can occur without measurable impairment of lung function. Depending on extent and severity, it may cause death within months or years, or it may never produce symptoms. It is usually an occupational lung disease, typically from years of dust exposure during work in mining; textile milling; shipbuilding, ship repairing, and/or shipbreakingsandblasting; industrial tasks; rock drilling (subways or building pilings);[2] or agriculture.[3][4]

In 2013, it resulted in 260,000 deaths globally, up from 251,000 deaths in 1990.[5] Of these deaths, 46,000 were due to silicosis, 24,000 due to asbestosis and 25,000 due to coal workers pneumoconiosis.[5]

Pneumoconiosis
Asbestosis high mag.jpg
Micrograph of asbestosis (with ferruginous bodies), a type of pneumoconiosis. H&E stain.
SpecialtyPulmonology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumoconiosis



09-25-2021-1900 - drafting

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Nuclear interaction by reaction or by compound (process auto).

Reaction to facilitate subatomic components from neutral compound at standard environment; or compound with environment standard change to facilitate dysequilibrium and subatomic componentialization/etc. by process of re-equilibration. rate, conditions, confound, constraints, time, etc..

Reaction activation at ground state environment equilibrated. (mercury aluminum oxide)

Environment change induced reaction (activation by environment change to dysequilibrate and catalyze reaction). (radioactive decay at STP)

chemical tables.

. channel (current, vaccume); expansion contraction hole, loop/spiral/torsion/spinor/angle/circle/triangle/shape/linear/line/point/etc.

. lanthanide (decay); promethium, uraniums, etc..

The lanthanide (/ˈlænθənd/) or lanthanoid (/ˈlænθənɔɪd/) series of chemical elements[1] comprises the 15 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers 57–71, from lanthanum through lutetium.[2][3][4] These elements, along with the chemically similar elements scandium and yttrium, are often collectively known as the rare-earth elements or rare-earth metals.

By way of examples of the term meaning the above considerations rather than their scarcity, cerium is the 26th most abundant element in the Earth's crust and more abundant than copper,[13] neodymium is more abundant than gold; thulium (the second least common naturally occurring lanthanide) is more abundant than iodine,[17] which is itself common enough for biology to have evolved critical usages thereof, and even the lone radioactive element in the series, promethium, is more common than the two rarest naturally occurring elements, francium and astatine, combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanide

The La3+ ion is similarly sized to the early lanthanides of the cerium group (those up to samarium and europium) that immediately follow in the periodic table, and hence it tends to occur along with them in phosphatesilicate and carbonate minerals, such as monazite (MIIIPO4) and bastnäsite (MIIICO3F), where M refers to all the rare earth metals except scandium and the radioactive promethium (mostly Ce, La, and Y).[40] Bastnäsite is usually lacking in thorium and the heavy lanthanides, and the purification of the light lanthanides from it is less involved. The ore, after being crushed and ground, is first treated with hot concentrated sulfuric acid, evolving carbon dioxide, hydrogen fluoride, and silicon tetrafluoride: the product is then dried and leached with water, leaving the early lanthanide ions, including lanthanum, in solution.[41]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanum

Natural[edit]

On Earth, naturally occurring radionuclides fall into three categories: primordial radionuclides, secondary radionuclides, and cosmogenic radionuclides. 

  • Radionuclides are produced in stellar nucleosynthesis and supernova explosions along with stable nuclides. Most decay quickly but can still be observed astronomically and can play a part in understanding astronomic processes. Primordial radionuclides, such as uranium and thorium, exist in the present time because their half-lives are so long (>100 million years) that they have not yet completely decayed. Some radionuclides have half-lives so long (many times the age of the universe) that decay has only recently been detected, and for most practical purposes they can be considered stable, most notably bismuth-209: detection of this decay meant that bismuth was no longer considered stable. It is possible decay may be observed in other nuclides, adding to this list of primordial radionuclides.
  • Secondary radionuclides are radiogenic isotopes derived from the decay of primordial radionuclides. They have shorter half-lives than primordial radionuclides. They arise in the decay chain of the primordial isotopes thorium-232uranium-238, and uranium-235. Examples include the natural isotopes of polonium and radium.
  • Cosmogenic isotopes, such as carbon-14, are present because they are continually being formed in the atmosphere due to cosmic rays.[6]

Many of these radionuclides exist only in trace amounts in nature, including all cosmogenic nuclides. Secondary radionuclides will occur in proportion to their half-lives, so short-lived ones will be very rare. For example, polonium can be found in uranium ores at about 0.1 mg per metric ton (1 part in 1010).[7][8]Further radionuclides may occur in nature in virtually undetectable amounts as a result of rare events such as spontaneous fission or uncommon cosmic ray interactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radionuclide

Thorium is a weakly radioactive metallic chemical element with the symbol Th and atomic number 90. Thorium is silvery and tarnishes black when it is exposed to air, forming thorium dioxide; it is moderately soft, malleable, and has a high melting point. Thorium is an electropositive actinide whose chemistry is dominated by the +4 oxidation state; it is quite reactive and can ignite in air when finely divided.

All known thorium isotopes are unstable. The most stable isotope, 232Th, has a half-life of 14.05 billion years, or about the age of the universe; it decays very slowly via alpha decay, starting a decay chain named the thorium series that ends at stable 208Pb. On Earth, thorium and uranium are the only significantly radioactive elements that still occur naturally in large quantities as primordial elements.[a]Thorium is estimated to be over three times as abundant as uranium in the Earth's crust, and is chiefly refined from monazite sands as a by-product of extracting rare-earth metals.

Thorium was discovered in 1828 by the Norwegian amateur mineralogist Morten Thrane Esmark and identified by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who named it after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Its first applications were developed in the late 19th century. Thorium's radioactivity was widely acknowledged during the first decades of the 20th century. In the second half of the century, thorium was replaced in many uses due to concerns about its radioactivity.

Thorium is still being used as an alloying element in TIG welding electrodes but is slowly being replaced in the field with different compositions. It was also material in high-end optics and scientific instrumentation, used in some broadcast vacuum tubes, and as the light source in gas mantles, but these uses have become marginal. It has been suggested as a replacement for uranium as nuclear fuel in nuclear reactors, and several thorium reactors have been built. Thorium is also used in strengthening magnesium, coating tungsten wire in electrical equipment, controlling the grain size of tungsten in electric lamps, high-temperature crucibles, and glasses including camera and scientific instrument lenses. Other uses for thorium include heat-resistant ceramics, aircraft engines, and in light bulbs. Ocean science has utilized (231)Pa/(230)Th isotope ratios to understand the ancient ocean.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium

. mercury aluminum oxide continuum 

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. helium-neon laser; nucl proc/op/rx/etc.; ionization of hyperfine quantum state; mags; electromagnetism; elects; ions; chemics; phys materials; etc...

. electron hole, electron with a hole, hollow atom, transition, magnesium oxide, strontium oxide etc..

. triple alpha process, CNO cycle, cycles, carbon-12, carbon, isotope, decay

. neutron, nucleon, isotones, nuclear (wikipedia, neutron, 2021)

. aneutronic fusion, boron, nitrogen, lithium, two proton  (Terran Space Academy, Exotic Fusion, 2020)

. 'some fusion produces protons; (most) produces photons...harvested for energy using plates to collect ultraviolet, x-ray, gamma-ray, etc., and to transform/etc. use as energy' ~ considerations (Terran Space Academy, Exotic Fusion, 2020) [step down transform or split-channel or coil-spring or etc.]

. 'nitrogen 15 fusion creates carbon 12 and helium 4' (Terran Space Academy, Exotic Fusion, 2020)

. 'electron strip/melt plasma hydrogen to proton two proton fusion' (Terran Space Academy, Exotic Fusion, 2020)

. 'a proton can decay into a neutron by emitting an electron in a process mediated by the weak nuclear force...beta decay...deuterium is formed when one proton in a diproton decays into a neutron by beta decay...deuterium build...deuterium fuse with proton forming helium three...helium three fuse with deuterium form helium four and emit or give off extra neutron...' (Terran Space Academy, Exotic Fusion, 2020)

. multiple process vessel, simultaneous processes, threshold, threshold excission, just noticeable difference, cascade, chain reaction, chunk, process direction, etc.. 

. neutron mirrors

. '(continuing...) two helium three fuse to form helium four emit two proton...' (Terran Space Academy, Exotic Fusion, 2020)

. plasma or not plasma (gas or liquid or solid or quantum or ion or interstate or multiple states/etc. or etc.; scale, property, quantity, etc. considerations, etc. [rate, time or measure]); cathode ray tube; F1 cathode; vacuum tube; oxyanion hole; oxygen cutting/welding; hydroelectric power; waxes hydrocarbons greenhouse gassing (aerogel; sol; or gel; or fluid or etc.; striated fluid, suspension, dispersion, etc., etc.); ozone; oxygen triangle cascade; ionization trihydrogen cation; cavitation; collapse; explosive/melt/combus/etc.; biofilm-tartar-plaque-mineralize-liquefy-etc.; electromagnetic field; supersymmetry; symmetry; supramolecular chemistry; etc.. quartz crystal, clock, vibration, phonon, radiation, etc.. rotation vibration translation. linear optics. oscillation. particle, wave. spring, spiral, spinor, etc.. helicoid catenoid. transform preserve conserve etc.. 

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-0845 - Robert Hooke FRS 1635 1703


Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1306 - conjugated system


Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1227 - hydrogen fuel

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1137 - Drafting hydroelectricity hydropower hydroelectric power Blagden 1748 1820

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1009 - Thorium dioxide (ThO2), also called thorium(IV) oxide

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-0918 - Oxy-fuel welding (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the United States) and oxy-fuel cutting

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-0913 - Ferrocerium pyrophoric

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-0914 - White phosphorus munitions

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-0912 - Phosphorus pentoxide

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1429 - conformational isomerism

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1434 - dihedral angle

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1308 - electromotive force (emf)

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-0849 - Pendulum

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-0846 - Hooke's law

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1230 - Strontium oxide or strontia, SrO

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1447 - Bunsen detected previously unknown new blue spectral emission lines in samples of mineral water from Dürkheim.

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1438 - Organotin stannanes

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1438 - Intramolecular

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1435 - Neutron Cross Section Phosphorus pentafluoride Fluxional (or non-rigid) molecules

Sunday, September 19, 2021

09-19-2021-1444 - Diethylzinc (C2H5)2Zn, or DEZ


table or chart of nuclides is a two-dimensional graph of isotopes of the elements, in which one axis represents the number of neutrons (symbol N) and the other represents the number of protons (atomic number, symbol Z) in the atomic nucleus. Each point plotted on the graph thus represents a nuclide of a known or hypothetical chemical element. This system of ordering nuclides can offer a greater insight into the characteristics of isotopes than the better-known periodic table, which shows only elements and not their isotopes. The chart of the nuclides is also known as the Segrè chart, after the Italian physicist Emilio Segrè.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_nuclides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radionuclide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerium_nitrate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1


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Making Prussian Blue

Extracting mercury from contaminated water

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The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years

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09-25-2021-1832 - signal-flow graph or signal-flowgraph (SFG) mason graph

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A signal-flow graph or signal-flowgraph (SFG), invented by Claude Shannon,[1] but often called a Mason graph after Samuel Jefferson Mason who coined the term,[2] is a specialized flow graph, a directed graph in which nodes represent system variables, and branches (edges, arcs, or arrows) represent functional connections between pairs of nodes. Thus, signal-flow graph theory builds on that of directed graphs (also called digraphs), which includes as well that of oriented graphs. This mathematical theory of digraphs exists, of course, quite apart from its applications.[3][4]

SFGs are most commonly used to represent signal flow in a physical system and its controller(s), forming a cyber-physical system. Among their other uses are the representation of signal flow in various electronic networks and amplifiers, digital filters, state-variable filters and some other types of analog filters. In nearly all literature, a signal-flow graph is associated with a set of linear equations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-flow_graph

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