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Presented by the Lyceum Society To register for this event, please contact customerservice@nyas.org Welcome and Introductions: 11:30 am to 11:45 am Initial Presentation: 11:45 am to 12:45 pm Speaker: Fred Cadieu Topic: Start of our Solar System: Earth Biased Illusions Everybody has some innate feelings about the start of Earth. Today we want to maybe expand those
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
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Nuclear detonations unleash an astonishing amount of destructive force. But the extreme pressure and temperature that they generate also makes nuclear blasts a cauldron of chemical creation, capable of delivering new and surprising scientific discoveries. In the 1950s, for instance, scientists examining debris from US hydrogen bomb tests found two new elements, which now occupy numbers 99 and 100 in the periodic table. They named them after prominent nuclear scientists: einsteinium for Albert Einstein, and fermium for Enrico Fermi. Now, scientists sifting through debris at the site of the fir...
By Kit Chapman2021-05-17T19:02:00+01:00 Scientists have found what might be the oldest synthetic quasicrystal in the debris of the first-ever atomic bomb test almost 76 years ago. The report brings together two of the strangest phenomena in chemistry. On 16 July 1945, the Trinity test became the first nuclear detonation, carried out in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan Project during the second world war. In the resulting explosion, particles of silicate-based desert sand were sucked up into the blast’s fireball, before raining down as a glassy mineral called trinitite. These f...