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Trivia Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Electric current is the flow of these through a wire

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

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