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Thermonuclear weapons can produce much larger explosions than fission weapons ; ... The fusion fuel in the secondary takes the form of lithium deuteride (a ......

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Contents: Atomic weapons Thermonuclear weapons Tritium Deuterium Lithium Detection of atomic and thermonuclear explosions*NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS....

Lithium hydride - Synthesis   

A selection of articles related to Lithium hydride - Synthesis. ... One of its most infamous usages is as the fusion fuel in thermonuclear weapons , ......

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Sep 11, 2009 ... Lithium was one of the few elements synthesized in the Big Bang. ... deuteride serves as a fusion fuel in staged thermonuclear weapons . ......

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Tritium's primary function is to boost the yield of both fission and thermonuclear weapons . It is produced in fission reactors and high-energy accelerators ......

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Cover Story. Thermo-nuclear Weapon . An artist's impression ... LITHIUM -6 DEUTRIDE 5. PLUTONIUM-239 6. URANIUM-235 7. LITHIUM -6 DEUTRIDE ......

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Oct 3, 2007 ... Or is lithium the new hydrogen, promising big but never delivering? ... deuteride serves as the fusion fuel in staged thermonuclear weapons . ......

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Bravo and Union used lithium enriched in the Li-6 isotope while Romeo and Koon ... It should be noted that many "fusion" or " thermonuclear " weapons still ......

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Ulam had proposed a new fission weapon design, using the mechanical shock of an ... of thermonuclear weapons , became known as the Teller-Ulam configuration. ... in the weapon itself by neutron bombardment of the lithium -6 isotope in the ......

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The government in the US produces enriched Li-6 for for thermonuclear weapons - the "depleted lithium " is sold off as the unwanted byproduct of this process ......

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(chemistry) a form of lithium hydride in which the normal hydrogen is replaced with deuterium; used in thermonuclear weapons ......

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The explosive power or yield of the thermonuclear weapon can be augmented by covering the lithium 6 deuteride with a uranium isotope U-238, which fissions ......

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Definition of thermonuclear weapon in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of thermonuclear weapon . Pronunciation of thermonuclear weapon ....

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Lithium -6 is created through an enrichment process and can indeed be used to produce tritium for thermonuclear weapons . The United States enriched lithium ......

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Russia exploded a device making use of Lithium -6 before the United States did; . .. the Soviet device was not a “true” thermonuclear weapon capable of being ......

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