Outside Reading Post 23

Recently I surfed the web and found a bunch of interesting articles about science, I didn't read them all, but I did happen to read this one about hydrogen. The article title was, "Hydrogen, the most powerful of its kind." This article in particular focused on the the atomic structure of the element, hydrogen, H for its elemental abbreviation. The author, Dan Brown, is a college student who is completely fascinated with the uses of elements. For this particular element, hydrogen, he describes how destructive it can be; his main focus was hydrogen bombs. He explains how hydrogen bombs get its energy from a combination of nuclear fusion by hydrogen isotopes. This fusion of the isotopes has a mass smaller than the original size of a hydrogen atom, the difference thus appearing as energy. From the article, "The end product again weighs less than its components, the difference once more appearing as energy. Because extremely high temperatures are required in order to initiate fusion reactions, the hydrogen bomb is also known as a thermonuclear bomb." I also learned that there is a such thing as a nuclear nation club, a club for nations that have admitted to having the ability to create nuclear weapons and store them. I really enjoyed this article because it was so fascinating and very informal.