• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Doesn’t splitting helium into hydrogen absorb energy?

    Fusion bombs fuse hydrogen into helium.

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        There is no* energy stored holding it together, just as there is no energy released when splitting a brick from the ground or splitting two magnets.

        *The energy stored in the electrical repulsion of the protons is much much less than the energy required to break the strong force bonds amongst the protons and neutrons, so energy is consumed rather than released in a split.

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      4 days ago

      France just happened to get nuked by the English at that very moment. It was unrelated to the helium situation

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        Its actually the Germans dressed as the English, retribution for France planning on nuking them if the cold war got hot. Also it wa as all of Germany not just the Eastern half.

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      4 days ago

      Split atom and you get energy

      Not that atom - look you’re doing it wrong

      Yeah, you are right. You don’t energy for fusing elements heavier than iron and you definitely don’t get energy from fission of helium-4.

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      3 days ago

      Are you alchemist? Is it true you can cut an atom with knife like potato