determine how much energy was released by splitting a certain amount of glucose, if 13.44 ml of carbon dioxide were released. How is this task being accomplished?
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Iron is the 'middle ground' of atomic stability.
If you look at the periodic table the far right column is stable, its the 'full shell' elements with 8 electrons in the outer shell (Do not Wiki S, P and D orbitals unless you're feeling brave, just pretend its alway 8 electrons it makes things easier).
So an atom with less than 8 electrons wants to gain them to get a full shell
Or an atom with 9, 17 or 25 electrons wants to lose them to get a full outer shell of 8.
When I say 'wants to' I mean it's more stable, that is, if it is able to get to that state it releases energy, if you try to remove it from that stable state it takes energy.
The same principle happens with atoms but the middle ground is Iron.
Any atom smaller than iron wants to fuse together to make a larger atom, to get closer to iron.
Any atom larger than iron wants to split, to make two smaller atoms, to get closer to iron.
And when I say 'wants to', I mean fusing two small atoms releases energy and splitting one large atom releases energy, with Iron in the middle deciding what is 'small' and what is 'large'
But in answer to your original question, almost nothing.
Splitting a uranium atom gives so little energy that Einstein thought it was pointless, until someone suggested triggering billions of atoms to split simultaneously.
Case in point.
There are 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms of oxygen in the H20 of a pint of water.
I can't tell you how many atoms of uranium were in Hiroshima but it was a lot.
Per atom, the energy is nothing. The secret is getting one atom split to trigger two more atom splits, making a chain reaction.
Hope it helps you...
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Iron is the 'middle ground' of atomic stability.
If you look at the periodic table the far right column is stable, its the 'full shell' elements with 8 electrons in the outer shell (Do not Wiki S, P and D orbitals unless you're feeling brave, just pretend its alway 8 electrons it makes things easier).
So an atom with less than 8 electrons wants to gain them to get a full shell
Or an atom with 9, 17 or 25 electrons wants to lose them to get a full outer shell of 8.
When I say 'wants to' I mean it's more stable, that is, if it is able to get to that state it releases energy, if you try to remove it from that stable state it takes energy.
The same principle happens with atoms but the middle ground is Iron.
Any atom smaller than iron wants to fuse together to make a larger atom, to get closer to iron.
Any atom larger than iron wants to split, to make two smaller atoms, to get closer to iron.
And when I say 'wants to', I mean fusing two small atoms releases energy and splitting one large atom releases energy, with Iron in the middle deciding what is 'small' and what is 'large'
But in answer to your original question, almost nothing.
Splitting a uranium atom gives so little energy that Einstein thought it was pointless, until someone suggested triggering billions of atoms to split simultaneously.
Case in point.
There are 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms of oxygen in the H20 of a pint of water.
I can't tell you how many atoms of uranium were in Hiroshima but it was a lot.
Per atom, the energy is nothing. The secret is getting one atom split to trigger two more atom splits, making a chain reaction.
Hope it helps you...
PLEASE GIVE BRAINLIEST ANSWER
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