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Trivia Questions

Pu doesn't refer to the smell of a reactor but to this fuel in it

This element, assigned atomic mass unit of 12.000, is the standard from which all others are measured

In nuclear fission mass from the neutron and the bombarded nucleus become energy as per this equation

Term for the least amount of fuel needed to keep up a chain reaction in a reactor

J.J. Thompson developed a cathode-ray tube with a screen to measure velocity of these particles

1 of the 4 basic forces in nature is this one that keeps you earthbound

Some consider plasma as a state of matter along with these 3

Electric current is the flow of these through a wire

It's the tendency of a material to return to its original dimensions after a stress is removed

The point at which lines of magnetic flux seem to converge is called this